Searching for global bash config

[Tornado]

Hi,
i'm not completely new to the linux world, but there are many many things I can't wangle.

My current problem: a global bash configuration.
I've got a debian etch system right now, very few packages installed, and now I want to have some commands executed after login for each user.
I've already tried modifying /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile, but nothing happens. So if I add "echo foobar" to bash.bashrc, it won't be executed after login, but interestingly if i manually start bash, "foobar" is shown up.

so where i'm at fault?

yours tornado

[iwanabeguru]

i think you are using a graphical DE.
So. find the startup menu set up the programs.

on gnome ypu find this option in he session menu

in lenny
applications->system->preferences->session

[Tornado]

Thanks for your reply. I don't know what DE means (sry, I'm from germany), but if this is "GUI" (thats what I assume as you mentioned Gnome), no, I've got no gui installed at all, so only console is available

hope you've got another hint for me

greets Tornado

edit: *urgs* of course, DE is desktop environment...as i wrote before, i don't use one

[hazel]

.bashrc is executed for non-login shells. For logging in, use .bash_profile.

[Tornado]

Thanks, but tell me if I'm wrong, those are only per-user settings in the home directories, not?

I searched for a global settings file

greets

[hazel]

I think they're in /etc/skel.

[Tornado]

Imho there are only the templates for new users.

Sorry for annoying you so much, but that's really important for me

[hazel]

I don't think Debian has what you want, but Ubuntu does and you could easily duplicate it. In Ubuntu there is a file called /etc/bashrc which contains global definitions and the users' ~/.bashrc files source it:

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc

You could create a file like this and modify /etc/skel/.bash_profile to source it. Of course you would also need to do this with existing users' personal .bash_profile files - it wouldn't work retrospectively for the reason you've just given. But once done, any further change to /etc/bashrc would immediately be reflected in every user's login.

[Tornado]

Thanks, it seems this is my last possibility

greets