Charles Philip Chan wrote: > Do you know of any shell other than t/csh that does not read ~/.profile?
bash does not read ~/.profile if it finds ~/.bash_profile Just a note: bash (and, maybe, some other popular shells) distinguishes between 1. interactive login shell 2. interactive, but not login shell 3. non-interactive shell The files it reads upon initialization differ in all 3 cases. So I should have written something like "when bash is going to read user profile file, it first goes for ~/.bash_profile, and if it finds it, it does not read any more user profile files". I found that on many system a display manager (xdm) starts a shell that is not interactive at all, so neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.bash_profile is read before the system X session script ( Xsession ) is executed. This might explain why sourcing GNUstep.sh in ~/.bashrc had no effect on applications launched in Xsession. Tima. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
