Hello Kai,
This was bugging me, too, so I did what you said. All checked out as per your
message except your changes made no difference. I still get the bash login.
Can you help some more, please.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:13, Kai Lindenberg wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 19:06 schrieb Stephen Liu:
> > On KDE Konsole window
> >
> > As ROOT, it prompts
> > mymachine root #
> >
> > not as
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
> >
> >
> > As USER
> > bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$
> >
> > Kindly advise how to change them back
>
> Yes, yes, this IS a problem on gentoo. Let's examine the startup
> files, assuming you are using kdm and kde3.1. The first question
> is: what does kdm start after logging in?
>
> ---code
> $ grep "^Session=" /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
> Session=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> ---
>
> This is the file that is invoked as user by kdm after login. Let's
> check the first line:
>
> ---code
> $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> #!/bin/bash --login
> ---
>
> You see, "bash" is invoked as login shell. The first sourced file is
> "/etc/profile". After reading that file, it looks for
> "~/.bash_profile", "~/.bash_login", and "~/.profile", in that
> order, and reads and executes commands only from the first one that
> exists and is readable (-> man bash). When you have chosen to start
> kde3.1, the next file which gets invoked is
> /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde (have a look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession).
>
> ---code
> $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde
> #!/bin/sh --login
> $ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-09-30 10:16 /bin/sh -> bash
> ---
>
> Now "bash" is invoked as "sh" and as login shell, too. So the
> sourced files are "/etc/profile" and "~/.profile" only, in that
> order (-> man bash).
>
> The last thing you do is starting "konsole" as terminal with your
> login shell, assuming to be "bash", but it is not invoked as login
> shell, so it sources only the file "~/.bashrc".
>
> On a fresh installed gentoo, you have "~/.bash_profile" and
> "~/.bashrc" in the users' home directories ($ ls -a /etc/skel).
>
> So the files are sourced in this order:
>
> /etc/profile (by Xsession), ~/.bash_profile (by Xsession),
> /etc/profile (by startkde), ~/.bashrc (by konsole)
>
> You are interested in PS1 for setting your command prompt. This is
> set in /etc/profile, but it checks for a !dumb terminal, but bash
> has always been invoked as dumb terminal. So all you have to do is
> to change both lines
>
> ---listing /etc/profile
> if [ "$TERM" != 'dumb' ] && [ -n "$BASH" ]
> ---
>
> to
>
> ---listing /etc/profile
> if [ -n "$BASH" ]
> ---
>
> Maybe you should also remove "--login" from the shebang line in
> /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde, because whenever kde starts, the
> invoking user is already logged in. In X this should be done by
> Xsession. The login profiles are to be sourced only one time.
>
> I hope this makes the kde startup a little bit clearer.
>
> Kai
>
>
>
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