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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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