.bash_profile not run when using graphical login

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 6 22:57:14 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:24:10AM +0800, John wrote:

> I don't think, haven't checked, that that _is_ what Debian policy says - 
> it's not what those who know have said. Practically nothing works that way.
> 
> PATH is an environment variable.
> BASH can be configured with environment variables.

And if you start bash without a PATH environment variable set, it still
works.

-- 
 - mdz




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