On 12/30/01, 10:29:29PM -0500, Devon wrote:
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> On Sunday 30 December 2001 06:43 pm, John P Verel wrote:
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> Hi John,
>
> > As I use gnome with the gnome display manager, I end up starting
> > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, passing the argument "gnome-session". I have
> > this line in my Xsession, at line number 93:
> >
> > exec -l $SHELL -c "gnome-session"
> >
> > Am I correct that this replaces the currently active login shell with a
> > new one? The -l options would seem to indicate a new login shell; the
> > -c "gnome-session" passed as an argument.
> >
> > If I've got this right, the "substitute" shell, invoked as a login
> > shell, would cause re-sourcing of /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile,
> > in turn causing the path issue.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something here. Aren't the path modifications in
> /etc/profile conditional? If they are already in the users path, they
> shouldn't be added again. That being the case, re-sourcing that file
> shouldn't affect your path.
The path modification in profile.d re: keberos is conditional, but not
in /etc/profile.
My /etc/profile looks like this:
# /etc/profile
# System wide environment and startup programs
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
# Original Red Hat path follows:
# PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
# Adding . 11/24, to pick up current directory for jdk problem. jpv
PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin"
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
# ulimit -c 1000000
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=1000
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
export PATH PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
---end of /etc/profile---
Thus, every time through, the path statement is appended with the stuff
for java (among other things). Twice through, two times in the path
statement.
See my note of a few minutes ago re: --noprofile option: tomorrow's
projects
Regards,
John
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John P. Verel
Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech!
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