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- From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
- Subject: Re: .login not executed
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:13:00 GMT
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- In article <8260001@mothra.rose.hp.com>, tire@mothra.rose.hp.com (Thomas Wolfe) writes...
- >
- >I have not encountered your problem with .profile not being read at
- >login, but in each window you open if you type
- >
- >.. .profile
- > at the unix prompt, your .profile will be reread and any changes will
- > be installed at that time. This is also useful when you make changes to
- > your .profile since you do not have to logout then login again./
- >
- >
-
- We've found two apraoches to solve this. I set "*loginShell" to true in my
- resource database (I hate xrdb, but I use it). Some of my co-workers moved a
- lot of stuff from .profile into a ".kshrc" and set ENV to point to that. I
- don't know what's required for ENV to work, it doesn't work for me. I am under
- the impression that setting *loginShell may be a bit overkill.
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- Bob Koehler | Any illusion to these opinions being other
- rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov | than just mine alone is just that.
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