Bug 136848

Summary:	cannot set an alias at login
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Thorsten Staerk <suse>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Thorsten Staerk 2005-12-04 12:17:39 UTC

For my work, I need an alias makeit="make -f Makefile.dist && ./configure"
I need this alias for whatever user I login and whatever shell I login and reardless if I log in graphically or textual.

I was told by Suse to use /etc/profile.local for that, but this does not work. After logging in graphically, I still have to do a sux - whatever-user to make the commands in /etc/profile.local being executed. 

Please document in /etc/profile how this is supposed to work.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-05 09:51:53 UTC

Do _not_ use bugzilla as support hot line!

RTFM e.g. manual page of bash states that alias's are
_never_ exported. Therefore use /etc/bash.bashrc.local