Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:14:11 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: re: .profile not sourced Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902031612470.6050-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <36B8CECF.5906BB4C@finsco.com>
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Bill Hamilton wrote:
> From: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com>
>
> Sorry, In my previous transmission, I meant to say:
> When I open an xterm, my .profile is not sourced.
> I have to manually type ". .profile" each time .
Feed xterm a "-ls" flag. From the man page:
-ls This option indicates that the shell that is
started in the xterm window be a login shell (i.e.
the first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indi-
cating to the shell that it should read the user's
.login or .profile).
<mike
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