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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:35:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Daniel C. Konnoff" <daniel@mysonusa.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.2 cdrom June 97
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970910183332.15258D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908115605.2893D-100000@paphos>

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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Daniel C. Konnoff wrote:

> 	This problem happens when I login in as root also and start X.
> 	The root shell is sh. Before X in started (using startx) all
> 	shell variables are set, after X is started the individual xterms
> 	have no	shell variables set.

You didn't answer my question:

> Are you sure that bash is getting called in an xterm and not /bin/sh? 

I'm using tcsh and I'm quite sure the shell's per-session file's getting
sourced.  You might check the bash man page and make sure that the
.profile _is_ the file that's sourced on every shell execution.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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