-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 December 2001 06:43 pm, John P Verel wrote:
Hi John, > 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. > > 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. Perhaps I'm missing something here. Aren't the path modifications in /etc/profile conditional? If they are already in the users path, they shouldn't be added again. That being the case, re-sourcing that file shouldn't affect your path. My situation isn't quite the same as yours, I start in run level 3, and then startx manually, which in my case starts a KDE session. (And no, I don't have a good reason for not starting in run level 5, old habits are hard to break.) Once in X, I usually have 2 or 3 konsole windows, with 4 or 5 shells open in each. I have seen duplicate path entries, but in all cases so far, they were caused by either my additions or 3rd party software. For example, I added an entry to /etc/profile to add a java path and didn't make it conditional. My path ended up having several entries for the java path. I modified the entry to look like: if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin" ; then PATH="/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin:$PATH" fi That solved that problem. Next, I installed sun's star office 6. The install of adabas added an entry to ~/.bashrc which made a mess of my path. The entry looked like: # by Sun Microsystems setup DBROOT=/home/devon/adabas DBWORK=/home/devon/adabas/sql DBCONFIG=/home/devon/adabas/sql PATH=$DBROOT/bin:$DBROOT/pgm:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DBROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export DBROOT DBWORK DBCONFIG PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH I ended up with a PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH several lines long because of the above path additions being repeated. I changed the PATH sections to: if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "$DBROOT/pgm" ; then PATH=$DBROOT/pgm:$PATH fi if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "$DBROOT/bin" ; then PATH=$DBROOT/bin:$PATH fi if ! echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH | /bin/grep -q "$DBROOT/lib" ; then LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DBROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi The $PATH being repeated seems to have been solved. If I'm way off base, just ignore me. ;) Hope that helps, - -D - -- pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8L9uZeMAUbzJhSVcRArf5AJ9iW1PIHCjJp0H5aC5Rd+4jv5psZQCgt/rr eqptYTcN+BSPHQ0T+T8FL44= =Xyh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
