Bug 136848 - cannot set an alias at login
Summary: cannot set an alias at login
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Dr. Werner Fink
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Reported: 2005-12-04 12:17 UTC by Thorsten Staerk
Modified: 2005-12-05 09:51 UTC (History)
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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