Why .bashrc doesn't work?

[youhaodeyi]

I have an account and its default shell is bash. I set some variable settings in ~/.bashrc. But after login, it doesn't load this file. Why .bashrc doesn't work?

thanks.

[RupertPupkin]

Try putting those in ~/.bash_profile instead. Normally that's the file that sources ~/.bashrc, though it doesn't have to. Also, if using a terminal window make sure it's using a login shell. For example: xterm -ls

[marcrblevins]

the bashrc is for nonlogin purposes. The bash_profile is for login purposes.

If you want global environment variables for all users, then it need to be in a xxxxx.sh file in /etc/profile.d directory.

Example, I have an oracle.sh in /etc/profile.d directory.

[marc@kiriyamablevins ~]$ cat oracle.sh
# Oracle Settings
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR

ORACLE_HOSTNAME=kiriyamablevins.dyndns.org; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.1.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=orcl; export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM
PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH

[marc@kiriyamablevins ~]$

[youhaodeyi]

Does this method work across different shell? If I define a file, oracle.sh, then a user log-in as a c-shell user, will the environment available for him?

[marcrblevins]

Does this method work across different shell? If I define a file, oracle.sh, then a user log-in as a c-shell user, will the environment available for him?
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Dont' think so.
Go ahead and use csh, then:

set | grep ORACLE

Does it show anything?

[aleph]

Originally Posted by youhaodeyi

Does this method work across different shell? If I define a file, oracle.sh, then a user log-in as a c-shell user, will the environment available for him?

Take a look at the contents of /etc/profile.d -- that will be enough to answer your question.

[youhaodeyi]

The file extension is .sh will be applied to bash while the .csh will apply to csh.