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Re: PATH variable and lock screen



On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:18:56 +0800 Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>
wrote:
>  On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:09:33PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
>  | Hello all,
>  | I am having  two strange problem here.
>  | I am using KDE 3.1 on Debian 3.0.r1 and Windowmaker 0.80.0-4.1.
>  | 
>  | 1-> I have to .bash_profile these paths PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:${PATH}
>  | and when I login to console I have my paths but when I use KDE and run env
>  | from xterm,konsole i get only the default paths from /etc/profile
>  | 
>  | pparisis@:~$ env|grep PATH
>  | PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
>  | 
>  | Any ideas why is this happening?
>  
>  Does xterm -ls or konsole --ls fix the problem?  If so, your
>  xterm/konsole isn't set up as a login shell.  The simplest way to fix
Yes the -ls flag correct the problem.

>  this is to create a ~/.bashrc that looks like so:
>  
>  	. ~/.bash_profile
>  
When I added this in my .bashrc and tried to start a xterm or konsole I get the
bash process to
use my CPU in 10% and my MEM at 80% usage!!!!!!!!!

12:17:11 up 24 min,  4 users,  load average: 1.56, 0.96, 0.97
68 processes: 62 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  64.0% user,  36.0% system,   0.0% nice,   0.0% idle
Mem:    514872K total,   510184K used,     4688K free,    26892K buffers
Swap:   506008K total,    23632K used,   482376K free,    29424K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1275 pparisis  10   0  399M 399M  399M S     9.5 79.5   0:35 bash
 3788 pparisis  17   0  399M 399M  399M R     2.3 79.5   0:00 bash

>  Or alternatively, symlinking .bashrc to .bash_profile might work.  This
>  will make login shells and non-login shells behave exactly the same.
>  
>  You can also screw around with xrdb in order to convince xterm to run as
>  a login shell by default; and I'd imagine that there's a similar option
>  buried inside konsole's preferences too.
I did n't find any options about this.
So I will stick with -ls.
But I am wondering why my xterm and konsole are not setup as login shell by
default.


Thanks
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Cameron.


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