OK, I've done this before, but for the life of me I cannot remember how. There are some environment variables, specifically some aliases such as `alias ll="ls -la"` I want to have set whenever any user brings up a terminal. Setting the alias in /etc/profile or in ~/.bashrc works for "ordinary" shells, but not for Konsole. How do I get it to work for Konsole?

Setting aliases in ~/.bashrc works for konsole, did you open a new konsole window after editing .bashrc?

/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile get executed once at login, so if you change them you have to logout then login.

It seems that /etc/profile is not being run at login, because changing the file does not establish the aliases for all users for Konsole. It works for regular x-term sessions. I want this to be for all users using Konsole. Secondly, it doesn't work for root to put it in /root/.bashrc. When I su to root in Konsole or an X-term, the alias is lost. This is where I need it most often.

Yes, I logged out and back in, and even rebooted several times.

Editing /root/.bashrc works here when I su in konsole, also the system wide alias is set in /etc/profile.d/alias.sh (this is in Mandriva).

When you put
alias ll='ls -l' in your ~/.bashrc then open a konsole what does this say:

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type ll

I have this in ~/.bash_profile:

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# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   . ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME

I must have been on the wrong machine. I could have sworn I was on the right one. In any case, putting the alias in /etc/profile does not cause the alias to work for root, but putting it in /root/.bashrc does.

I know what you mean, when I try something so many times and it doesn't work I become frustrated and forget I changed what/where/when

Yeah, and lack of sleep doesn't help much, either.

Ahmad Samir wrote:Setting aliases in ~/.bashrc works for konsole, did you open a new konsole window after editing .bashrc?

/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile get executed once at login, so if you change them you have to logout then login.

or instead of logging out do the following and they'll be available immediately:-

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. ~/.bash.rc

(shorthand for source /home/$user/.bash.rc)

Kind regards