Jeremy,

Thanks for your response....I tried the following and the environment 
variables I set up in /etc/profile are still not being read:

1. Created a file .xsession
2. Added these lines: 
. /etc/profile
exec gdm
3. rebooted

What am I missing?

Mark

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>  
>
>>How can I make gdm or xdm read /etc/profile at start up? I have some
>>environment variables in /etc/profile and they are not set when I log in.
>>    
>>
>
>/etc/profile is used by login Bourne-type shell, but you can still use it
>since sh is used to run the Xsession.
>
>Source the file in with a ~/.xsession file, like:
>
>. /etc/profile
>exec yourwindowmanager
>
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
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