On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:35:47PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:01:39AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> > I have set some aliases in /etc/profile, but
> > when I enter "screen" and create a new "screen" session,
> > it does not work, I am afraid screen will not read /etc/profile.
> > Idea?
>
> Screen doesn't read profile or .bashrc, bash does.
> Screen causes a shell (bash) to be run, and then bash is
> failing to read your /etc/profile.
>
> This is because you have already logged in, and you are
> running a bash that only reads bashrc (not a "login" bash).
>
> According to the man page (bash(1)), if you run a login bash,
> it will execute /etc/profile, if it exists, then it will
You can tell screen to exec a login shell. From screen's manpage
shell command
Set the command to be used to create a new shell. This
overrides the value of the environment variable $SHELL.
This is useful if you'd like to run a tty-enhancer which
is expecting to execute the program specified in $SHELL.
If the command begins with a '-' character, the shell will
be started as a login-shell.
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