RE: differences between telnet and terminal window

["Collins, Kevin (KCollins)" <KCollins chevrontexaco com>]

More than likely, the terminal window will be missing things like
aliases that are evaluated in a "login", which happens with telnet. Most
X-terminal apps support a "-ls" (login shell) option that causes them to
source the whole environment as if a login were occurring. 

Configuring the window manager to start the terminal with that option is
different for every window manager. You probably are using GNOME or KDE,
neither of which I use and so I can't tell you how to fix that :)

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of SATISH RAMANATHAN
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:24 AM
To: taroon-list redhat com
Subject: differences between telnet and terminal window


Hi,

This might be a silly question, but how are environments of
* a telnet session i.e. a remote login session created by running
"telnet 
<machine-name>" and
* a terminal window i.e. obtained by right clicking on the desktop
console 
and choosing "New Terminal"
different?  Aren't they supposed to be similar?  I am looking at
differences 
in behavior of my application depending on which mode is used for login.

Thanks in advance,
-Satish

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