On 7/12/99 ktb wrote:
I'm by no means an expert on this but I've found that /etc/profile
effects my console sessions and not my 'X' sessions.
this is because xdm is broken and does not load any environment, even
your .profile or .bash_profile.
you have to force it by adding:
set -a ## this might be wrong something like this is needed to get
/etc/environment to stick
source /etc/profile
source /etc/environment
source ~/.bash_profile
to your .xsession
either that or fix the global Xsession scripts to load the
environment properly. redhat uses #! /bin/bash -login (bash 1 need
--login for bash 2) but that does not work with bash 2 i saw a bug
against bash 2 for that but have not checked to see if its fixed or
not. the --login should make it load the environment like it would
if you logged in on the console.
your MAIL variable is never set with xdm either, bad bad bad.
Ethan
