On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:41:56AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote (1.00): > I really think it has something to do with login/pam. > But what? And why doesn't it get run when I log in from > xdm? /etc/environment is read by the pam_env.so PAM module. If you don't have auth required pam_env.so in whichever /etc/pam.d/* correspondes to your login system. I used gdm, which supports pam... not sure if xdm does. If it doesn't, then /etc/environment won't work for you. M