On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:43:02PM -0500, John P Verel wrote:
> As I use gnome with the gnome display manager, I end up starting
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, passing the argument "gnome-session". I have
> this line in my Xsession, at line number 93:
>
> exec -l $SHELL -c "gnome-session"
>
> Am I correct that this replaces the currently active login shell with a
> new one? The -l options would seem to indicate a new login shell; the
> -c "gnome-session" passed as an argument.
Replaces, not runs two concurrently, right.
> If I've got this right, the "substitute" shell, invoked as a login
> shell, would cause re-sourcing of /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile,
> in turn causing the path issue.
It shouldn't if the shell doesn't start with '-', e.g., "-ksh". If that's
not happening, then it's not set up right. (As you probaby know, the
login shell of a session is invoked as "-{shell}", where "{shell} is the
name of your shell.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
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