[17021] in Athena Bugs
8.3.14: bash dotfiles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Aug 5 21:01:36 1999
Message-Id: <199908060101.VAA15301@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:01:29 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
System name: x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.3.14 (with mkserv)
Display type: afb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: vtwm.gamma
What were you trying to do?
get setup to use bash as my shell. in particular, I was using the
bashuser account to test a .bash_environment file.
What's wrong:
when logging in on an X display, the .bash_environment doesn't get
sourced unless the user has an appropriate .xsession
What should have happened:
it should be documented that you need to do more than just copy in a
.bash_login and .bashrc from /usr/prototype_user, and an appropriate
.xsession file should be provided.
I don't see any very good solution to needing a specialized xsession,
but needing the specialized file to be in one's account seems bad
because then you lose if you have your shell set to tcsh on a
particular (perhaps not 8.3) machine.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
the comment in /usr/prototype_user/.bashrc
