On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:11:30PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > (I like the login shells because I have a fairly large number of aliases > and environmental variables in by .bash_profile that make the absence of > a login shell unproductive.) > > Anybody seen this? is there a workaround?
Yes. fix your bash setup, put all the aliases etc. in ~/.bashrc and source that file in ~/.bash_profile. Then you don't need to make every random shell a login shell anymore. Install the bash-doc package and have a look at /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/ for more hints. mfg, Stephen R�ger -- It has been proposed that a million monkeys at typewriters would produce the works of Shakespeare. The experiment has been tried. It is called the Internet, and no new Shakespearean material was detected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
