Re: xdm and user's profiles
Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> writes:
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> On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:54:15PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> >
> > If you need system wide enviroment stuff, put it in
> > /etc/enviroment. Its the only place used by all shells, since its
> > passed as the initial enviroment to all shells.
>
> Not true. I cannot get /etc/environment values to be set when I use xdm to
> log into X. I have not tried via startx, but I presume that will work.
>
> I may have futzed, and gotten the format wrong, if someone would enlighten
> me, I'd be appreciative.
------------------------- /etc/enviroment ----------------------------------
LANG=C
EMAIL="goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de"
------------------------------ xterm ---------------------------------------
# echo $LANG
C
# echo $EMAIL
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I use xdm to log in and as you can see LANG is set correctly but EMAIL
is not. Strange. I don´t have LANG=C anywhere else I believe, at least
not in ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile. Under console login
it works as it should. I have to check the xdm login to get arla to
work, so I will look for /etc/enviroment stuff as well.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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