/etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are not being read

[janne]

ons 2004-11-17 klockan 13:26 +1100 skrev Cameron Hutchison:
> Once upon a time janne said...
> > tis 2004-11-16 klockan 17:48 -0800 skrev Vram:
> > 
> > > It is my understanding that .bash_profile is read on login
> > 
> > It should be. It isn't. That is the basis of my question :)

[good explanation deleted]

> To get around this, I have my own .xsession that has a first line of
> "#!/bin/bash -l". My startup is then done through the .xsession script,
> after having loaded the bash environment. Users with different shells
> would need a different first line to invoke their shell as a login
> shell.

OK. Doing my own xsession feels more than a little overkill, just to get
~/bin into my path.

If I ask it in this way: why is /etc/X11/Xsession not using that
hash-bang line, rather than the default /bin/sh? Ubuntu is defaulting to
bash after all, so it would be reasonable.

Or ask in this way: How are other distributions doing this? It does work
on other systems, without the need for each user to mess with xsession
themselves.

A third question: why do /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile exist at all,
if they aren't used, and can't be used? It only confuses people to keep
them.

Last, related question: the default paths are set _somewhere_. DOes
anybody know where that would be, so I can add my stuff there?


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