On Wednesday 16 May 2001 17:18, Sadin Nurkic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You need to change /bin/sh to /bin/bash
> in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession I believe.
> I have no idea why this would have changed from 7.2 to 8.0
> but it was changed :)
>
hmmm, it is #!/bin/bash -login in 8.0
and according to my backups of /etc, it was #!/bin/sh in 7.2
I have tried
/bin/bash --login (note the extra -)
/bin/sh --login
/bin/bash
/bin/sh
and nothing seems to work.
> Sadin
>
> At 20:01 16/05/01, A V Flinsch wrote:
> >Prior to Mdk 8.0, I had several environment variables being set in my
> >.bash_profile after switching to 8.0 they nolonger seem to work when
> >logging in thru kdm. If I log in thru the console then do a startx
> >everything seems to work (as it should, since the vars are set), but
> > when logging in thru kdm they are not set.
> >
> >The questions are
> >
> >why is .bash_profile not being run when logging in thru xdm?
> >
> >what is different about logginf in thru xdm in 8.0 that was not there
> > in prior releases
> >
> >And the big question is -- how do I fix it?
> >
> >--
> >Alex
> >Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
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Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
