Bug 2350 – Bug in /etc/skel/.bash_profile from the stage1 tarball

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2130
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lasse Mikkelsen 2002-05-02 13:08:31 UTC]

When creating new users on a system installed with the stage1 tarball, I noticed
that there is a bug in the /etc/skel/.bash_profile bash configuration file.

On my system it looks like:

#This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively.
[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc

eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias d="ls --color"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias ll="ls --color -l"

But /etc/DIR_COLORS doesn't exist!

The line starting with "eval" should be:

eval `dircolors -b`

[Comment 1 Lasse Mikkelsen 2002-05-02 13:15:50 UTC]

Created attachment 781 [details]
The affected file

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-05-02 22:04:54 UTC]

Az: we should at least check that the file exists before using it.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-05-03 18:09:57 UTC]

I just keep forgetting to talk to you about this :)  It was part of
fileutils, but after the last update, it was left out.  It seems as if it
fixes problems for tcsh (again) users, so i think maybe Ill add it to
baselayout.

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-05-03 18:13:13 UTC]

Just to see previous comment :)

[Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-05-05 05:57:47 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2130 ***