Mike Scott's questions

On one of my Ubuntu 11.10 servers, when I use sudo -i to become the root user, root's .bashrc is not being executed. On all other servers, whose relevant configurations are identical as far as I know, it is being executed properly.

Here's what I've checked:

• .bashrc exists in /root, owned by root:root, permissions 644
• /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc are being executed
• root's shell is set to "/bin/bash"
• I can execute .bashrc with source .bashrc, after which everything is normal for that session.
• I can also type bash to execute bash manually after I've sudoed to root, and .bashrc is then executed
• ps confirms that the running shell for my root login is bash.

Anything else to check?

What is the Ubuntu way to configure phpMyAdmin so that I can use it to administer multiple MySQL servers? The database parameters are set in /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf, but there's only space in there for the connection parameters for a single server. I could hack it into /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php and /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php, but I assume there has to be a more elegant way.