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Subject: Re: set path in X enviroment
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	Are you talking about xterm? If so, then start it with -ls:

       -ls     This  option  indicates  that  the  shell  that is
               started in the xterm window will be a login  shell
               (i.e.,  the  first  character of argv[0] will be a
               dash, indicating to the shell that it should  read
               the user's .login or .profile).

	What exactly do you have in your .bash_profile that XDM is not
executing?

-- yan

On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Feiyi Wang wrote:

>
>hi, there
>
>I am running XDM as front end, when I login, it seems the .bash_profile in
>my home directory didn't not get executed. There is some enviroment
>information has been set, where are they come from? Where should I set up
>my PATH ?
>
>/oliver
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