[klug] Re: [Ilugc] Difference between bashrc and bash_profile

[Antony Paul]

so what is /etc/profile for ? I a distro (RHL or MDK) I edited
/etc/profile to set environment variables but these variables were not
present when I logged in as root all other users get the env
variables.

rgds
Antony Paul


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:31:59 +0530, Joe Steeve <joe_steeve at gmx.net> wrote:
> bala chandar <mbchandar at gmail.com> writes:
> > bashrc is the profile configuration per user.
> 
> bash executes ~/.bashrc when starting a non-login shell
> 
> > bash_profile is for the all the user.
> 
> bash executes ~/.bash_profile when starting as a login-shell
> 
> Somepeople call the ~/.bashrc from the ~/.bash_profile
> 
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