Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:36:21 +0500 (KGT) From: CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su> To: Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm and paths Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810031433390.425-100000@freenet.kg> In-Reply-To: <199810030606.CAA20332@lafcol>
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> I have two accounts, 'root' and 'abcdef', abcdef is a member of wheel. > When I login on either acount trough a text erminal, both have > /usr/local/bin in their path. But, if I login through xdm, the xterm > session on 'abcdef' as /usr/local/bin in the path, but 'root' does not. > The acounts have the exact same home directory contents, and same > shell(tcsh). The /etc/csh.* files do not set any paths. you will need to specify xterm -ls, so xterm will know that shell, which is started, is loginshell, (ig. it will pass the the argv[0], with the first character -- dash, so shell will process .profile, .bash_login or whatever). read man xterm for more. Fyodor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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