On 10/5/07, Paul Dann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I've just discovered that on my system (013), all the default
> environment variables are being set from zshrc, which will only be
> executed if the shell is interactive.  Maybe I'm stupidly missing
> something, but shouldn't that be in zprofile, so that they are defined
> only for login shells?  I discovered this because of trying to create a
> sheltered environment free of system variables (à la LFS), and noticing
> that variables were being defined after my .zprofile.

According to the zsh manual, /etc/zprofile is for login shells only.
Not sure if that would be the ideal behavior -- I may be mistaken
here, but I got used to have variables updated when I open a new
terminal, rather than having to logout and login again.

-- Hisham
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