Slackware 11 aliases, anyone?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Michael,

Put those aliases in your .bash_profile (or .profile, whichever you
use) and then logout and login again and you should be good to go.

Chuck


On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 05:35:11AM +0100, Gaijin wrote:
>      Hi again all,
> 
>      Well, Slack11 is working great.  The BSD init setup is strange 
> after working in System V.  I have a really strange problem.  I saved a 
> few of my own aliases in a file called .aliases, and then made and added 
> the lines to .bashrc:
> 
> echo 3 > /proc/speakup/rate
> source ~/.aliases
> 
>      It didn't work, so I unaliased all of my aliases and tried again. 
> That didn't work either, so I deleted every single file in the home 
> directory, deleted every alias, logged out, logged vack in, and guess 
> what?  The stoopid default aliases were back!  wtf?  Is Windows haunting 
> my Linux drive now?  Anyone know how to get rid of the default aliases 
> and add my own?  .bashrc doesn't seem to work in Slack for some odd 
> reason, and yeah, I'm using bash.  Ran Debian for over two years, so I'm 
> not TOO stupid. <laughs>  Thank the gods I'm running sendmail.  Best 
> news I've had since January.  I wonder if there's a way to generate an 
> installed  package list.
> 
>          Michael
> 
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