xdm login behaviour

[Bruce Richardson <brichardson lineone net>]

I typically use startx but I've been experimenting with xdm and found that 
it was causing me problems no matter how I played with .xsession etc to 
make the config files the same as for startx.  I tracked down the problem 
to the way xdm is logging in.  When I run startx, it uses the environment 
created by bash when I logged in.  This includes adding /usr/X11R6/bin to 
the path (in /etc/profile) and ~/bin to the path (in /etc/bashrc).  xdm, of 
course, is doing its own login and (crucially) doesn't add /usr/X11R6/bin 
to the path, which causes all kinds of problems and is a major oversight.

I'm using RH 5.1 - does this 'feature' occur in 5.2?