Argh I understand, I presumed that it did, will have to check
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:06:07PM +1100, Christopher Vance wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:59:03AM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > >>xdm is not a login shell - did you tell rxvt it was a login shell? > > > >Okay, I used xdm to login, I then start a rxvt session I believe it > >uses what ever is defined in /etc/passwd as my shell program, again > >bash. > > I know that xterm, which I use instead of rxvt, has an option (-ls) > for it (xterm) to tell the shell it runs that it (the shell) should > run as a login shell. I was asking 1) if rxvt has such an option, and > 2) whether you used it. The answers to these questions will determine > whether bash reads your /etc/profile or not. > > -- > Christopher Vance > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
