Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:44:25 -0000 (GMT) From: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> To: CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> Subject: Re: xterm and paths Message-ID: <199810031545.LAA11973@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810031433390.425-100000@freenet.kg>
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On 03-Oct-98 CyberPsychotic wrote: >> I have two accounts, 'root' and 'abcdef', abcdef is a member of wheel. >> the xterm session on 'abcdef' as /usr/local/bin in the path, but >> 'root' does not. > you will need to specify xterm -ls, so xterm will know that shell, which > is started, is loginshell, > Fyodor To add to what Fyodor wrote. Some shells (i.e. Bash) have a dot file which is read when your shell is "interactive, but not a login shell". If you want the same behavior for both, login shells and not, you could link the dot file used for one to the other. Example: In Bash the ~/.profile is used, among other possible files, for login shells. ~/.bashrc is used for non login shells. You could "ln -s .profile .bashrc" so you get the same paths/environment from xterm and regular sessions. ---- francisco@natserv.com The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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