On 0, Sandip P Deshmukh <deshmukh@escortsmumbai.com> wrote: > hello! > > my .bashrc file reads as follows: [snip] man bash (particularly the section marked INVOCATION). Basically, when bash is started as a login shell it reads ~/.bash_profile, and when it is a non-login shell it reads ~/.bashrc. So your options are to modify ~/.bash_profile, or figure out how to tell xterm to pass bash the '--login' option. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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