I'm new to Ubuntu. I'm running 13.10 Desktop.

I wanted to set some system wide aliases and a custom prompt for bash. I found this article:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables

Following the advice in this article, I created /etc/profile.d/profile_local.sh. It is owned by root and has permissions of 644 just like the other scripts there:

root@ubuntu:/etc/profile.d# ll

total 28

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar 23 08:56 .

drwxr-xr-x 135 root root 12288 Mar 23 09:15 ..

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   660 Oct 23  2012 bash_completion.sh

-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3317 Mar 23 07:36 profile_local.sh

-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1947 Nov 23 00:57 vte.sh

I have further confirmed that /etc/profile calls /etc/profile.d. It contains this code block:

if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then

  for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do

    if [ -r $i ]; then

      . $i

    fi

  done

  unset i

fi

Upon login, it does not appear that the custom script, profile_local.sh I created gets sourced. However if after login I 'source /etc.profile.d/profile_local.sh', I get the expected behavior, my custom aliases, and custom prompt.

What am I doing wrong?

Contents of script 'profile_local.sh':

# 3/23/14 - Copied from Gentoo /etc/bash/bashrc

# Placed in /etc/profile.d as described at:

# https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables



# This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup,

# including some apparently interactive shells such as scp and rcp

# that can't tolerate any output.  So make sure this doesn't display

# anything or bad things will happen !





# Test for an interactive shell.  There is no need to set anything

# past this point for scp and rcp, and it's important to refrain from

# outputting anything in those cases.

if [[ $- != *i* ]] ; then

        # Shell is non-interactive.  Be done now!

        return

fi



# Bash won't get SIGWINCH if another process is in the foreground.

# Enable checkwinsize so that bash will check the terminal size when

# it regains control.  #65623

# http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/FAQ (E11)

shopt -s checkwinsize



# Enable history appending instead of overwriting.  #139609

shopt -s histappend



# Change the window title of X terminals 

case ${TERM} in

        xterm*|rxvt*|Eterm|aterm|kterm|gnome*|interix)

                PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}007"'

                ;;

        screen)

                PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}033"'

                ;;

esac



use_color=false



# Set colorful PS1 only on colorful terminals.

# dircolors --print-database uses its own built-in database

# instead of using /etc/DIR_COLORS.  Try to use the external file

# first to take advantage of user additions.  Use internal bash

# globbing instead of external grep binary.

safe_term=${TERM//[^[:alnum:]]/?}   # sanitize TERM

match_lhs=""

[[ -f ~/.dir_colors   ]] && match_lhs="${match_lhs}$(<~/.dir_colors)"

[[ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]] && match_lhs="${match_lhs}$(</etc/DIR_COLORS)"

[[ -z ${match_lhs}    ]] 

        && type -P dircolors >/dev/null 

        && match_lhs=$(dircolors --print-database)

[[ $'

'${match_lhs} == *$'

'"TERM "${safe_term}* ]] && use_color=true



if ${use_color} ; then

        # Enable colors for ls, etc.  Prefer ~/.dir_colors #64489

        if type -P dircolors >/dev/null ; then

                if [[ -f ~/.dir_colors ]] ; then

                        eval $(dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors)

                elif [[ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]] ; then

                        eval $(dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS)

                fi

        fi



        if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then

                PS1='[033[01;31m]h[033[01;34m] W $[033[00m] '

        else

                PS1='[033[01;32m]u@h[033[01;34m] w $[033[00m] '

        fi



        alias ls='ls --color=auto'

        alias grep='grep --colour=auto'

else

        if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then

                # show root@ when we don't have colors

                PS1='u@h W $ '

        else

                PS1='u@h w $ '

        fi

fi



# Try to keep environment pollution down, EPA loves us.

unset use_color safe_term match_lhs



TZ="PST8PDT"



alias ll='ls -la'

alias dig='dig +search'

alias dir='ls -ba'



alias edit="ee"

alias ss="ps -aux"

alias dot='ls .[a-zA-Z0-9_]*'

alias news="xterm -g 80x45 -e trn -e -S1 -N &"



alias more="less"

alias c="clear"

alias m="more"

alias j="jobs"



# common misspellings

alias mroe=more

alias pdw=pwd