[yocto] .bashrc not being used by root account

[Mihai Lindner]

On 10/18/2012 07:52 PM, Jonathan Haws wrote:
> Okay, I have done a couple of things:
>
> 1. I appended to the base-passwd recipe and added my own patch that would patch the passwd file to have root use a bash shell.  I have verified that this is the case when I login via echo $0.  It tells me that root's shell is bash.
>
> 2. I have appended to the base-files recipe and added a do_install_append() function to my bbappend file that copies the dot.bashrc to /home/root/.bashrc.  I have verified that this is taking place and the .bashrc file is actually in /home/root.
>
> 3. I ran 'strace -f bash' after logging in and /home/root/.bashrc is sourced (I saw it in the output and my aliases were available).
>
> However, upon first login, it appears that /home/root/.bashrc is NOT sourced by bash.  How can I get bash to source that file when I login at a console?
>

There are 2 solutions for this: rename your .bashrc in .profile, or copy 
/etc/skel/.profile in /root/.profile

.bashrc is sourced only for non-login shells. For console login shells 
only .profile (or .bash_profile or .bash_login) is sourced.

Cheers,
--Mihai

> Thanks for the help!
> Jonathan
>
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 02:29
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> Subject: Re: [yocto] .bashrc not being used by root account
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> On 10/17/2012 09:25 AM, Venkata ramana gollamudi wrote:
>> You can check the same with  "strace -f bash"
>> You can see the files being loaded, as there is a rc file loading sequence exists for bash.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ramana
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] on behalf of Jonathan Haws [Jonathan.Haws at sdl.usu.edu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:32 PM
>> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: [yocto] .bashrc not being used by root account
>>
>> I have modified the .bashrc file for the system, however the root account does not seem to use it by default.  What am I missing?  I would rather not have to source the .bashrc file every time I login as root.
>
> Try `echo $0` to see the shell you're in. By default you should be in
> `sh`, which does not source .bashrc.
> You can execute `bash` after login, or change the login shell of 'root'.
>
> Cheers,
> --Mihai
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
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