On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I know there is a way to do it, but I haven't found the right > piece of doc yet I guess. > > How do I get /etc/profile and friends to be run when gnome > starts up a terminal session? > > TIA! > Dennis > /etc/profile should automatically run. Try running GNOME-Terminal with "-e bash" and see if that works.