Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

["Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% David List <david@davidlist.dk> writes:

  dl> Regular logins and logouts. No su'ing or the like.

Just to be clear, when you say this you mean logins at the console, for
example, right?  If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or
XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell,
and so your profile file is never sourced.

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