Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72262
.bashrc evaluated before /etc/profile.d/ in xterms
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:48 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: .bashrc is evaluated before the scripts in /etc/profile.d/ in all terms started in gnome so that user defined aliases are overwritten. i.e. placing the line alias ls='ls -AF --color' in .bashrc is overwritten by /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh with alias ls='ls --color=tty'. Users should be able to modify ls by placing an alias for ls in ~/.bashrc Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.modify ~/.bashrc 2.start gnome 3.start a gnome term 4.enter ls Actual Results: ls resulted in ls --color=tty Expected Results: ls should have been aliased ls -AF --color Additional info:
hp: How does gnome launch its shells? This works just as intended in KDE...
works fine in gnome for me too, in rawhide. In 7.3 if it doesn't work I'm not sure what's wrong... maybe you need to toggle the "--login" or "login shell" option in gnome-terminal preferences.
The .bashrc in /etc/skel sources /etc/bashrc, which in turn sources the scripts in /etc/profile.d. Is it possible that these lines are still in your .bashrc and occur after your modifications? Experimenting with strace reveals the following order of access in various situations: bash --login /etc/profile ...which in turn sources /etc/profile.d scripts ~/.bash_profile ...which in turn sources ~/.bashrc ...which in turn sources /etc/bashrc ...which in turn sources /etc/profile.d scripts again yes, only /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are sourced directly in this case. If you remove this line from .bash_profile, ~/.bashrc (and hence /etc/bashrc) will not be sourced in this case. bash -norc none of these files are sourced bash ~/.bashrc is sourced ...which in turn sources /etc/bashrc ...which in turn sources the /etc/profile scripts In *all* of these cases, user controlled config files have the final say.