[ILUG] New distros Not sourcing .login?

[Liam Bedford]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:20:35AM +0100, Fergal Daly came forth with:
> Hi all,
> 	has anyone else had this problem? Under Redhat 7.0 (haven't tried it with
> 7.1) and Mandrake 8.0 when I login through X, nothing sources my .login, so
> my X session knows nothing about my path or my ENV variables etc.
> 
I used to have games with that kind of thing, and figuring out what gets
 called when is a pain.

if you're using bash, then:
for a login shell, it sources ~/.bash_profile, then ~/.profile if the first
one doesn't exist
for a non-login shell, it sources ~/.bashrc

So I find the easiest is to symlink them together, or make one source the
other...

I'm not sure that a GNOME session considers itself a login shell, so I don't
think it'll set the right flags for bash to do that (for instance, there's
an option to make gnome-terminal a login shell by default).

So I'd be inclined to make ~/.xsession be
#!/bin/bash
exec gnome-session

and make it exectuable..

L.
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