Re: vairable changing in RH7.1 (was PATH changing in RH7.1)

["John P. Verel" <jverel home com>]

I think this is right, at least for Red Hat, per Bash Reference
Manual, 2.5, and some interpolation.

There are two types of interactive shells, login and non-login.  What
one sees in a gnome terminali(for example), as default configured, in a
non-login interactive shell.

Both types of shells first source /etc/profile, the system wide
defaults.  In Red Hat, this does a bunch of things: sets path, runs the
scripts in /etc/profile.d. and so on.  (These scripts are what create
the default aliases.)

A non-login shell then sources ~/.bashrc.  In Red Hat, this file checks for
the existence of /etc/bashrc.  If found it too is sourced.

A login shell, after sourcing /etc/profile, looks for ~/.bash_profile,
~/.bash_login and ~/.profile, in that order.

This is not quite in line with the Bash manual.  Specifically, Section
6.2 on Startup files would have one believe that /etc/profile is not
accessed by a non-login shell.  However, the Red Hat comments in the
several of these files suggest that /etc/profile is always
sourced....else, how would I have fixed the PATH problem that started
this thread.

I think this is correct.  Is it?

John
On 09/01/01, 03:06:39PM -0600, Jason W Elliot wrote:
> I'm still curious about when files are sourced. It seems to be related to
> my question about the SESSION_MANAGER variable. I fished around in my
> ~/.gnome directory and didn't find much.

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