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Bug#276234: xterm lost $HOME/bin and $TMPDIR



On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:20:00PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2004-10-13 08:20:16, schrieb Thomas Dickey:
> > > > perhaps xterm isn't being run as a login shell:
> > 
> > by the way -
> > 
> > Changing xterm's behaviour doesn't rely upon scripting
> 
> And 'mutt' ? 
> I can not use 'mutt' under in xterm anymore since this upgrade.

I'm assuming you're doing something like
	xterm -e mutt
which can't be a login shell, of course.
 
> It was working for years since 03/1999 (SLINK)...
> My fvwm2rc has not changed for more then one year.

fvwm changed its configuration though (different topic).
 
> So there was something changed in xterm since
> 4.1.0-16woody1 because this Version works fine. 

I think it's more likely that someone changed the scope of environment
variable trimming on setuid programs.  That would show up in xterm,
but is unrelated to anything that might have been changed in xterm.

(I'm the upstream maintainer for xterm, cannot say what interesting things
might occur in Debian's packages).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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