Re: Bash in xterm under x*3.3.2.3a-6
On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <tille@physik.uni-halle.de> writes:
>
> Andreas> Hello, after updating from x*3.3.2.3a-1 to x*3.3.2.3a-6 I
> Andreas> recognized that bash doesn't read .bashrc when starting
> Andreas> an xterm. That seems me to be very obscure and I can't
> Andreas> imageina any reason.
>
> Probably this is because xterm is not starting up as a login session,
> or vice-versa. (bash's behavior on reading config files is extremely
> weird.)
Make a symlink between bashrc and bash_profile. Anything else is just
icky:->
Ciao,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
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