On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Quayle, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't see any reply to this on the list, and we are experiencing similar > problems. > > We have just built RHEL 5.2 servers and are using SRSS 4.1, when logging in to > the servers via ssh, /etc/profile is sourced as it should. When starting a > Gnome > or KDE session via a Sun Ray, /etc/profile is never sourced. > > Login shell is either bash or ksh...
You're talking about the shell running inside a terminal window, right? Make sure that your terminal emulator program (typically gnome-terminal or Konsole for KDE) is configured to launch the shell as a "login" shell. For gnome-terminal that's done by a checkbox labeled "Run command as a login shell" in the configuration profile editor's "Title and Command" tab. I think gnome-terminal's default is to run the shell as a non-login shell, and as you can see in the shell's manpage that will cause the shell to skip reading /etc/profile. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
