A few questions about "bashrc"????

[southpaw]

Hello all,

I've been digging around the doc's, manpages, etc..etc.., but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. In Slackware-11, by default, there is no /etc/bashrc, /etc/bash_profile, and no ~/.bashrc. The only file like these available in Slack is "/etc/profile". Now in every tutorial I've read so far it says to put this in ~/.bashrc...

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

Does this mean that I need to create an /etc/bashrc file, or can I just ommit that line in my newly created ~/.bashrc ???

Another question, what does this mean???

export MINICOM="-c on"

Also, if I wanted to change my CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS, would I put that in "/etc/bashrc" or in "/etc/profile" ???

[daark.child]

You don't have to create an /etc/bashrc. The file is read if it exists and if its not there, there is no problem.

Is the minicom command not supposed to be

export MINICOM="minicom -c on"

According to the manual, using the -c flag enables colouring in the minicom program.

[kern]

Also, if I wanted to change my CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS, would I put that in "/etc/bashrc" or in "/etc/profile" ???

You'd put an executable script with the required commands in, in /etc/profile.d/ and it would be sourced with every user login automatically.

better than editing /etc/profile directly as this might get overwritten with new packages during upgrades etc.