On 7/11/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Are you logging in with a graphical login manager such as kdm, gdm, or > > > xdm? If so then read this note: > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg03761.html > > > > > > I am sure that is the same problem you are seeing. > > > > But How about /etc/profile. Whether anything regarding path given > > there is universal or kdm login throw that also out of gear. I was > > mandrake user. Recently switched over to debian. > > /etc/profile is the same as $HOME/.bash_profile. Neither are read > unless the shell is a login shell. If the shell is a login shell then > both are read. Read that note I pointed to and it will explain much. > > I don't know how Mandrake handles this. Debian has previously done > exactly what the upstream does and nothing more. It appears that > other distros patch the upstream code to handle this case. SuSE > forcibly sources ~/.profile and redirects all errors to /dev/null. I > think that is bad. Red Hat does it right here by starting your shell > as a login shell. > > Setting up ~/.xsession as described in the messages I references seems > like the best answer. Thanks for the reply. However it talks of only profile. Whether only the problem is with profile files or for bashrc files also. May be I am unable to understand. excuse me.
-- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
