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Re: XDM and /etc/profile



On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:37:41PM +0000, Simon Read wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I was  trying to  change the  path for users  of my  freshly installed
> Debian machine.  I found (to  my dismay) that /etc/profile is NOT used
> if I login at the console using 'xdm', but IS used if I login remotely
> (using ssh).

change the first line of /etc/X11/Xsession from:

#!/bin/sh 

to 

#!/bin/bash --login

then /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile will be used.  the drawback to
this is it doesn't work as expected if you use a shell other then
bash.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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