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Date:      Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:36:21 +0500 (KGT)
From:      CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>
To:        Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xterm and paths
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810031433390.425-100000@freenet.kg>
In-Reply-To: <199810030606.CAA20332@lafcol>

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> I have two accounts, 'root' and 'abcdef', abcdef is a member of wheel.
> When I login on either acount trough a text erminal, both have
> /usr/local/bin in their path.  But, if I login through xdm, the xterm
> session on 'abcdef' as /usr/local/bin in the path, but 'root' does not.
> The acounts have the exact same home directory contents, and same
> shell(tcsh).  The /etc/csh.* files do not set any paths.

you will need to specify xterm -ls, so xterm will know that shell, which
is started, is loginshell, (ig. it will pass the the argv[0], with the
first character -- dash, so shell will process .profile, .bash_login or
whatever). read man xterm for more.
 


Fyodor


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