From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 23: 4:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DF537B79D for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 23:04:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA03605; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:57:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006120557.BAA03605@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "grios@consultant.com" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 01:58:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <39446B1D.3E7D2320@tdnet.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: environment Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:46:21 -0300, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: >When using xterm, my environment is different from that of the console. >Could some some explain me why ? I believe it has to do with one been a login shell and the other not. Different set of startup files get executed based on whether the shell is a login shell. It depends on the shell. Check the man page for your shell. To find out your shell echo $SHELL Search the man page for "startup" or "login shell" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message