Re: differences between telnet and terminal window

[Wesley Wannemacher <wesw aol net>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:24:20AM -0700, SATISH RAMANATHAN wrote:
> 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.
> 

Many terminals do not run as a 'login shell' unless specified. For
instance, my gnome-multi-terminal window has the option 'Run command as
a login shell' checked for the profile I launch by default. 

I'm not sure of the specifics, but one thing I noticed is that terms run
without this option seem not to source my .profile (I'm a ksh user).

A telnet session will log you in with your shell and source all your
initialization files (man your_shell for list of files read on login).

/W

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