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[Michael Brandtner]

Am Montag, den 04.10.2004, 20:12 +0100 schrieb Andy:

> In case you're interested - I've raised another thread on a similar 
> issue (".bash_profile not run when using graphical login"). Basically 
> the .bash_profile (and possibly as you say /etc/profile) don't get run 
> if you log in via Gnome and then open a terminal window because by 
> default Bash only runs them for logon sessions (see "man bash"). 
> However, some distros (e.g. Mandrake) do get them to run under these 
> circumstances and I think that it would be a good idea here. I'm going 
> to try to find out how Mandrake do it and possibly raise a bug for the 
> issue.

Yes, i've seen it and posted a comment from my gentoo-view.
I can have closer look on the mechanism behind it.


Greetings

Michael