Re: Bash profile/bashrc, X login

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

Bill Crawford <billc@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
>> From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@ces.clemson.edu>
>> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:58:40 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>[no colorls or which-2 aliases in gnome-terminal]
>
>> Any other ideas welcome.
>
> Check that they have the executable bit set, for "other".  This is
>how the current code in /etc/profile does it (from setup-2.3.8-1):
>
>	for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
>	        if [ -x $i ]; then
>	                . $i
>	        fi
>	done

According to the bash man page, '. <file>' is a synonym for 'source file'.
I don't think executability of <file> is required, but in any case:

	[root@yankee /etc]# ls -l profile.d
	total 17
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          379 Aug 25  2000 colorls.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          474 Aug 25  2000 colorls.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           58 Nov 21 17:54 gnome-ssh-askpass.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           70 Nov 21 17:54 gnome-ssh-askpass.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          282 Aug 15  2000 kde.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          233 Aug 15  2000 kde.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          943 Aug 23  2000 lang.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1618 Aug 23  2000 lang.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          122 Aug 23  2000 less.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          108 Aug 23  2000 less.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           64 Aug 21  2000 mc.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          169 Aug 21  2000 mc.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          104 Aug 23  2000 qt.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          101 Aug 23  2000 qt.sh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          126 Jul 13  2000 which-2.csh
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          125 Jul 13  2000 which-2.sh

> Can you please paste the results of running (as root) "rpm -V setup",
>"rpm -V which" and "rpm -V fileutils", and of typing "alias" to the
>bash shell in an xterm and in a gnome-terminal please ?

Gladly.

      [root@yankee /etc]# rpm -V setup which fileutils
      .M...... c /etc/hosts.allow
      .M...... c /etc/hosts.deny
      S.5....T c /etc/printcap

>From gnome-terminal started from the Gnome panel:

     [mjs@yankee iol]$ alias
     [mjs@yankee iol]$ echo $SSH_ASKPASS
     /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
     [mjs@yankee iol]$ echo $SHLVL
     1

>From an rxvt started from the Gnome menu:

     [mjs@yankee mjs]$ alias
     alias l.='ls -d .[a-zA-Z]* --color=tty'
     alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'
     alias ls='ls --color=tty'
     alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'
     [mjs@yankee mjs]$ echo $SSH_ASKPASS
     /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
     [mjs@yankee mjs]$ echo $SHLVL
     2

Same results when logged into xterms, gnome-terminals started from the
command line, kterms, etc.  Also, same results when logged into a 
virtual console, except then, SHLVL is 1.

Utterly mysterious, no?

		Matthew Saltzman
		Clemson University Math Sciences
		mjs@clemson.edu
		http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs