Re: 1.7.1: Incomplete install

[Jeremy Bopp <jeremy at bopp dot net>]

Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
> So a complete uninstall (by deleting the directory and removing registry references) followed by a complete install fixed all my problems except one:
> 
> My rxvt shortcut results in a prompt that has not read my .bashrc file.  So I hacked the /etc/profile file to include the line:
> 
> . "/<home_dir>/.bashrc"
> 
> That fixed it.

And it broke automatically updating /etc/profile for the future.  Rather
than editing your /etc/profile file, create a .bash_profile file in your
home directory with the following contents:

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

Then read the bash manpage regarding startup files.  What you want is at
the beginning of the INVOCATION section.  The following excerpt provides
the details for --login:

	When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
non-interactive  shell with the --login option, it first reads and
executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,
and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the
first one  that exists  and  is  readable.  The --noprofile option may
be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

> The rxvt syntax is below:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe  -T "%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%" -e /bin/bash --login -c "exec /bin/bash"

This can be simplified as follows (all one line):

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe  -T "%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%" -e /bin/bash
--login

Telling rxvt to execute /bin/bash --login (using the -e option) will
start your bash shell.  There is no need to tell that bash shell to
simply exec another one by use of the -c option to bash.  It doesn't
break anything to do it your way, but it's unnecessary.

-Jeremy

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