On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:50:10PM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > Package: xbase-clients > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 > Severity: normal ... > The problem I have is, that startx /usr/bin/xterm "removes" > LD_LIBRARY_PATH from my environment. When logging in using tty1, I see > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib, but after I started X11 with that xterm it's > gone. The same thing happens when logging into kdm. Actually it's the setuid feature which is noticed by the C runtime, and that removes the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. xterm is setuid in Debian to allow it to update utmp (the record of logins). It could be configured to use the utempter library (Redhat does that). For the same reason, (or perhaps they're using old-style pty's) several other programs (I see Eterm, aterm, rxvt) are setuid. gnome-terminal and konsole aren't (but they're end-user applications designed to be run in sessions - though google hints that they might want to write to utmp - I see many bug reports ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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