https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:52:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc/#c1334847159-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc/#c1334847159-1 I just tested the non-interactive login shell combinationfor bash using the she-bang line "#!/bin/bash -l" and it turns out to be crazier still. /etc/profile is sourced while $HOME/.profile is not. To reproduce this just put some echo commands in /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile respectively identifying each case. I consider this a minor bug in bash. Non-interactive shells should not source any config files as they would render shell scripts dependent on settings meant for a specific environment. Without that bug the rule for bash is simple: profile is for login shells, bashrc for non-login shells and scripts get nothing. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:52:00 +0000 Elmar Heeb https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc/#c1315408560-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc/#c1315408560-1 Actually /etc/bash.bash_logout is the system-wide version of bash_logout ;-) But I totally agree with your name convention complain Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:16:00 +0000 Alex https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc/#c1315224557-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc/#c1315224557-1 You may wonder what is a non-interactive login shell. Answer: a shell started to run a single script, with the option --login. Yes, this is crazy, but it is possible, so with the point of view of the shell author: there will be crazy users to do that, so it must be covered. Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:09:00 +0000 Tanguy