Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:23:09 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XDM question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911032212140.51423-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF9AD9A7@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: >Sorry for this possible simplish question, I have search for days now. It >took me 3 weeks to get xdm to start on boot ( really I wanted wdm to boot, >but it never would), but now that it does I notice that it does not read the >same login script as a console login does. I have check every possible file >I can think of .login .cshrc .profile and such but I can't seems to find >where xdm is get it's settings for PATH and SHELL and other environmentals. >Where is it defaulted to read. I have check Xsession, Xresources, Xstartup_0 >etc but unless I'm missiung something or just not seeing it I can't find >anything like the path setting and such. I read the man and what it >suggested is what seems to be on my sys. TIA. xdm is like a server. It doesn't really care what path or shell that any of the multiple users want. It just manages the display. It sounds like there is a slight concept error here. A user does not "run" xdm. A user connects to xdm in order to start an x session. What the user actually runs is a 'window manager' which puts up your user interface and is generally the parent process for all other process in your session. I do not know if your window manager reads or modifies PATH and SHELL. You have said you are having trouble with PATH and SHELL. Are you having trouble with a particular shell and it's config files? If you use bash for example, there is a distinction between 'login' shell and 'interactive non-login' shells. login shells use .bash_profile and non-login shells use .bashrc. When you run xterm, you are using a non-login shell. You must know how the shell you desire reads its rc files to get the correct behavior. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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