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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [Bug 53345] .bash_profile  script is not sourced]
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-02-27 0:14:07
Message-ID: 403E8BCF.2060503 () acm ! org
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Roger Larsson wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2004 00.09, George wrote:
> 
>>So my point is:  There is no need for a perfect solution.  The nice
>>solution (pam) will come along eventually.  We should strive for a "stable"
>>solution for now, that is: one that doesn't change all the time, that is
>>the only one that has a chance to (in time) become semi-standard on most
>>installations. Which I think the current solution does (modulo few minor
>>icky points where kludges are needed).  Any change now will take a few
>>years really to get into distributions (if at all) and then you will have
>>different systems with different startup scripts in the meantime.
>>
> 
> 
> what about my idea to add -l to #! /bin/sh? (see bug report)
> Wouldn't that work in most cases?

Actually, you should use:

	#! /bin/bash --login

because this (most unfortunately) only works on Bash.

However, on Bash based systems, this is probably the best solution.

--
JRT
 
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