Mike McCarty wrote:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
You might find this bug interesting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765
Very interesting indeed. So I wonder whether this will show up for
other desktop environments, too.
I use Gnome with FC2, and
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
logging in.
You might find this bug interesting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765
Bob
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Nelson Castillo wrote:
Is this a run-level distinction then? Is /etc/profile is only involved
in setting up run-level 2?
This has nothing at all to do with run levels.
I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing?
A linux thing? An X thing?
Seems
Daniel B. wrote:
Shouldn't global environment variables be set in /etc/environment?
For anything that comes in through PAM. But if it does not come
through PAM then /etc/environment will have no effect. PAM is used
for login shells and such. But not for /etc/init.d daemon startup for
example.
On 9/23/05, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
You're misquoting me here. I didn't ask this:
Nelson Castillo wrote:
Is this a run-level distinction then? Is /etc/profile is only involved
in setting up run-level 2?
This has nothing at all to do with run levels.
I was curious about
Nelson Castillo wrote:
You're misquoting me here. I didn't ask this:
Sorry, that one should have had another set of in front. That
part of the question came from Adam Hardy. I tried to answer both in
one message since I had several messages as it was.
Bob
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Bob Proulx wrote:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
logging in.
You might find this bug interesting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765
Dom wrote:
Hi,
Could someone please tell me if I'm doing this right and if not what
I'm doing wrong as I'm a newbie trying to get acquainted with the
linux system. I want to make every application that wishes to use my
/tmp folder on my linux partition to use a custom folder on another
--- Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very interesting indeed. So I wonder whether this will show up for
other desktop environments, too.
I was vaguely aware that it is difficult to do, but didn't think it
through fully and thus didn't appreciate the full difficulty of it.
Not to
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
logging in.
You might find this bug interesting.
Daniel B. on 15/09/05 17:55, wrote:
On 9/14/05, *Kai Grossjohann* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
/etc/profile since all users'
I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing?
A linux thing? An X thing?
Seems debian-specific.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg04226.html
Right now I'm having a problem with UML and
i found a solution.
# mount root_fs mnt-uml/ -o loop
# echo
Nelson Castillo wrote:
I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing?
A linux thing? An X thing?
Seems debian-specific.
Is PAM Debian-specific?
Is PAM's sourcing of /etc/environment PAM-specific?
Daniel
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L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .xsession
#!/bin/bash --login
exec startkde
Cool, that works indeed. .xsession needs to be executable, and it
needs to have --login or the semantic equivalent in the shebang
line.
However, there are a number of other things that
On 9/14/05, *Kai Grossjohann* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
/etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
Is
On 9/13/05, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dom on 12/09/05 12:20, wrote:
SO I need to change system variables TMPDIR, TEMP and TMP... how
should I do that?
One source tells me to change .bash_profile from my (and every other
user's if I want to do this as the system default) home
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
/etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a
similar program?
I tried to get my ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or
Kai Grossjohann on 14/09/05 09:07, wrote:
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
/etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a
similar program?
I tried to
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only tried it with startx from a cmd line. Thanks for the info. But I
can't think where else you would set it up.
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
On 9/14/05, Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in /etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or asimilar program?I tried to
Dom on 12/09/05 12:20, wrote:
SO I need to change system variables TMPDIR, TEMP and TMP... how
should I do that?
One source tells me to change .bash_profile from my (and every other
user's if I want to do this as the system default) home folder by
putting 'export TMPDIR=[path]' in it, BUT
Hi,
Could someone please tell me if I'm doing this right and if not what
I'm doing wrong as I'm a newbie trying to get acquainted with the
linux system. I want to make every application that wishes to use my
/tmp folder on my linux partition to use a custom folder on another
partition (looks
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