From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 18:35:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA13522 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA13515 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA15285; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:35:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Daniel C. Konnoff" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2 cdrom June 97 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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