.bashrc not loading when logging in

dinki · Feb 2nd 2019, 3:57pm

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user@omv:~$ ls -l .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 82 Sep 11 10:20 .bashrc
user@omv:~$ cat .bashrc
# Aliases
#alias ls='/bin/ls -FCs '
alias s='. ~/.bashrc'
alias l='/bin/ls -l '

I'm expecting the above .bashrc to be loaded when I log in. Unfortunately, that's not happening. I can load it manually but I'd prefer not to have to do that. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

macom · Feb 2nd 2019, 4:10pm

Have you checked which shell is defined for your user? Default is dash, not bash

dinki · Feb 2nd 2019, 4:31pm

macom wrote:

Have you checked which shell is defined for your user? Default is dash, not bash

Thanks for this but it is set to /bin/bash

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user@omv:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

dinki · Feb 3rd 2019, 2:47pm

No one can help with this?

macom · Feb 3rd 2019, 2:56pm

does your ~/.profile contain something like this?

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# ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells.
if [ "$BASH" ]; then
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
fi

askubuntu.com/questions/161249…when-opening-new-terminal

dinki · Feb 4th 2019, 7:48pm

I just added it but it didn't make a difference.

I'm using stock OMV and I'm not a programmer or admin but I have been using Linux for a good while. Can't figure out how to get this to work ....

Any help is most appreciated.

dinki · Feb 6th 2019, 5:01pm

No one has ever had this kind of problem? I'm not a linux genius but I know some of you guys are. Can you help me out?

gderf · Feb 6th 2019, 5:33pm

Put your aliases in your .profile file instead of .bashrc.

dinki · Feb 11th 2019, 12:18am

Tried in .profile and still no good.

gderf · Feb 11th 2019, 1:01am

Then something is seriously wrong with how you are doing this or you are not logging in as the same user you are modifying the environment for.

Also, you have to save the .profile file and log out and then log in again. Are you doing that?

dinki · Feb 11th 2019, 2:06pm

gderf wrote:

Then something is seriously wrong with how you are doing this or you are not logging in as the same user you are modifying the environment for.

Also, you have to save the .profile file and log out and then log in again. Are you doing that?

I've set up OMV with default settings. All users exhibit this behavior.

I certainly did write, log out, and log back in.

I've been a Unix/Linux user for 30+ years. Admittedly, I am not an admin but I am pretty good moving around in the shell. I'm also pretty good at searching and finding things and this has me stumped.

*EDIT* Did more searching. FYI to anyone else, the file to edit is .bash_profile. Not .bashrc or .profile.

Thanks for the help.

gderf · Feb 11th 2019, 2:14pm

I have a highly populated with aliases and working .profile here.

I do not have a .bash_profile file at all.

dinki · Feb 11th 2019, 7:30pm

gderf wrote:

I have a highly populated with aliases and working .profile here.

I do not have a .bash_profile file at all.

Just reporting. I can't explain it. All I can say is that it is working now and that I am running stock so I can't see why your .profile works but mine does not.

gderf · Feb 11th 2019, 7:35pm

What's in your skeleton directory?

dinki · Feb 11th 2019, 8:49pm

Unknown. This is the first I hear of skeleton directories. If you tell me where to look I can post what I find.

gderf · Feb 11th 2019, 9:14pm

/etc/skel - These files are copied into the user's /home directory when a new user is created.

My OMV 4.x box started life as OMV 2.x, was upgraded to OMV 3.x and then to OMV 4.x. Here's what's in mine:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220 Sep 25 2014 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3526 May 15 2017 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 Sep 25 2014 .profile

dinki · Feb 12th 2019, 3:57pm

My /etc/skel/ directory is empty.

gderf · Feb 12th 2019, 4:05pm

dinki wrote:

My /etc/skel/ directory is empty.

No idea why that is unless there was a change in Debian and from the dates on mine they might be left over from the older versions of OMV.

You did take into account that those are hidden files when you looked in the directory?

dinki · Feb 13th 2019, 7:19pm

Wow. I am a dummy. It's not empty:

root@omv:~# ls -la /etc/skel/

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root@omv:~# ls -la /etc/skel/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 5 11:31 .
drwxrwxr-x 103 root root 4096 Feb 2 14:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220 May 15 2017 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3526 May 15 2017 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 May 15 2017 .profile

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gderf · Feb 13th 2019, 7:33pm

Those are the files that are generally copied into a new user's home directory when the user is created. But it is possible to create users without doing this. If you added the user within OMV, perhaps it is doing something unusual.