Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 19:27:31 -0500 From: Duraid <latif2221@home.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] xterm in icewm Message-ID: <3AA82373.CF8FC41E@home.com> References: <3AA708B2.379AFA21@home.com> <44wva0qpzj.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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what is the system wide file for .bashrc? /etc/bashrc didn't work. Duraid Lowell Gilbert wrote: > latif2221@home.com (Duraid) writes: > > > annoying glitch in icewm .. when executing xterm it doesnt' seem to run > > my /etc/profile and it starts with > > bash-2.04 prompt but when i do: source /etc/profile everything is > > normal. i just don't want to do source /etc/profile for every xterm i > > open.. ( my ENV is set proparly to ~/.shrc and i even tried it with > > ~/.profile). > > /etc/profile and ~/.profile are only executed for login shells, which > xterms aren't, unless you use the -ls option to start them. I put the > definition of my prompt in my .bashrc file for this reason. > > See the manuals for xterm(1) and bash(1) for more details [and maybe > check out my startup files at http://world.std.com/~lowell/systuff/], > but in short this is *not* a glitch -- it's absolutely the correct > behaviour. I only want *one* execution of my login scripts for each > session I start, regardless of how many xterms I might use. > > Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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