Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:50:23AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> What about addressing his primary point rather than what in my
> benefit-of-the-doubt humor I construe as a typographical oversight?
I don't remember what the "primary point" was. Was it the same as
the Subject: header -- .profile not being read at login? Yeah, we
know about that. We've already addressed that.
.profile is only read at login time if you login to a shell -- e.g.
using ssh or a text console login. (And of course, only if your
login shell actually reads .profile. Shells like tcsh which read
different files obviously won't read it -- and they wouldn't be
able to handle it anyway, because they use different syntax.)
It is not read if you login to an X session using a graphical Display
Manager.
It MAY be read if you login to a Wayland session using a graphical
Display Manager. I don't have Wayland stuff installed to test.
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