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Re: sourcing /etc/profile for xterm shells?



On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:

> 
> How can I go about having the defaults from /etc/profile, or even the
> user's bash config file, sourced when an xterm is brought up?

>From the xterm man page:

-ls     This option  indicates  that  the  shell that  is
	started  in the xterm window will be a login shell
	(i.e., the first character of argv[0]  will  be  a
	dash,  indicating to the shell that it should read
	the user's .login or .profile).

...RickM...


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