Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6311
Several bash things are hosed
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
In installing 6.1 I found that the .bashrc file ends with a floating "fi", which causes a complaint when logging in and when a new terminal is brought up in GNOME. The .bashrc file tries to execute "/etc/bashrc" but this can't happen because the permissions on /etc/bashrc are all set to "no execute".
Which bashrc are you talking about? /etc/bashrc has: # /etc/bashrc # System wide functions and aliases # Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile # For some unknown reason bash refuses to inherit # PS1 in some circumstances that I can't figure out. # Putting PS1 here ensures that it gets loaded every time. PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " and /etc/skel/.bashrc has: # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi I don't see any unbalanced ifs here, and sourcing /etc/bashrc works fine.
The permissions on /etc/bashrc are 644; with those permissions, the exact same snippet of shell code works fine; i.e. '. /etc/bashrc'. Also, I tried adding a user with 'adduser foo', and it came up with a normal (no extra fi) .bashrc. Are you using something else to create the users? Are you sure it's not something else giving you the error?
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