Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:41:44 +0100 From: J65nko <j65nko@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh does not read profile Message-ID: <19861fba0903051741t58c7c622q12bd4619eda7f4bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090304150803.GA30617@marge.bs.l> References: <20090304150803.GA30617@marge.bs.l>
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Bertram Scharpf
<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from "man sh":
>
> Invocation
> [...] When first starting, the shell inspects
> argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid-
> ered a login shell. This is normally done automatically by the system
> when the user first logs in. A login shell first reads commands from the
> files /etc/profile and then .profile in a user's home directory, if they
> exist. [...]
>
> I use Slim (X login manager) which calls
>
> exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc
>
> I first wondered why none of my commands in "/etc/profile" and
> "~/.profile" got executed. Finally, I modified
> "/usr/src/bin/sh/main.c" to trace what files are read, recompiled
> the "sh" command and: the only file that is executed is "~/.shrc".
>
> I just cannot believe that FreeBSD has such a severe bug. What is
> going wrong here?
>
Put the following in a file called ".Xresources" :
XTerm*loginShell: true
=Adriaan=
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