Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

[David List <david@davidlist.dk>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Paul Smith wrote:

>%% 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.

Darn, I see that you're right. It occurred to me that I *had* tried
logging in through a virtual console and that it didn't work there
either, but I tried it now, and it did.

Thanks to your and mr. Reuss for your help.

Best regards,
David List