Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:20:50 +0000 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Feiyi Wang <fwang2@cobblers.csc.ncsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: set path in X enviroment Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980118172050.007b4b10@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980118133929.1787A-100000@cobblers.csc.ncsu. edu>
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At 13:45 1/18/98 -0500, 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 You can do the following. cp ~/.bash_profile ~/.bashrc The .bashrc file is read by bash under these circumstances. This way your environments within an Xterm will be identical to your environment in character mode. This will include your $PATH. Read 'man bash' for more information. Later, Jason Wells
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