On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 13:50 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > read - opening a terminal in Gnome etc starts an interactive non-login > shell and so /etc/bashrc and $HOME/.bashrc are read but not /etc/profile > or $HOME/.bash_profile. At least that's my understanding. > > Googling around a bit, this situation has quite a history, and there was > even a time when /etc/profile was even sourced twice at login. You're absolutely right, gdm/xdm/kdm should be running the login files 1 time. We spent a lot of time fixing this several years ago, must have gotten busted somehow. Be sure there's a bugzilla... Havoc
