Re: /etc/profile and gdm/xdm

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Mark Phillips wrote:

> latitude610:/home/mark# cat .xsession
> #!/bin/sh -f
> . /etc/profile
> latitude610:/home/mark#
>
> latitude610:/home/mark# ls -al .xsession
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 mark mark 43 Dec 20 10:33 .xsession
> latitude610:/home/mark#
>
> After booting up, when I open a terminal window and type echo $JAVA_HOME
> the variable is not set. If I then type . /etc/profile then echo
> $JAVA_HOME I get the correct information (/usr/local/lib/jdk).
>
> Why aren't the values set when I boot up? What am I doing wrong?

I assume your .xsession is not being used. If it was being used, you
wouldn't get any X because your .xsession would close and your XDM login
would come back up (because it doesn't run any command to keep X running).


Jeremy C. Reed

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