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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: FOUND IT !!!!!!!
From:       Pavel Troller <patrol () sinus ! cz>
Date:       2001-05-11 11:56:19
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> * Oswald Buddenhagen -- Friday 11 May 2001 11:14:
> > that's sort of a common misconception ... /etc/profile and ~/.profile
> > are the bourne shell's startup files, not the xsession's ...
> 
> Yes, I know. But my /etc/passwd defines /bin/bash to be my preferred
> shell and I expected the xsession to be started through a bash in which
> case .profile would have been sourced.
> 
No!
  /etc/profile and .profile are sourced automatically if and only if
the shell was invoked as a login shell, i.e. either arg 0 starting with dash
or --login option present. In all other cases, .bashrc is sourced but not
the above two. See man bash(1) for more information.
                              With regards, Pavel Troller
 
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