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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:38:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120501203842.2154e2f4@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C573D55-43CA-4450-9FB0-ED86AD58B7FB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

Stroller writes:

> Therefore I have created a plain text
> file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults
[...]
> Yet when I log in, these environment variables are not set. 
> 
> The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the
> execute bit (`chmod +xxx`).

It needs to be readable by your user, more is not needed.

> If I source the file using `. /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults` then
> suddenly I get the right pager, but it does not seem to be sourced at
> login, as I believe is promised. What am I doing wrong or
> misunderstanding, please?

/etc/profile is sourced for login shells only. That happens when you log
in a text console, but usually not for a graphical terminal. As a KDE
user, I have set my Konsole's profiles to run '/bin/bash -l', this gives
me login shells. For xterm or aterm, you would use the '-ls' option.

	Wonko



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-01 18:11 [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/ Stroller
2012-05-01 18:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2012-05-01 19:41   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2012-05-01 18:27 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-01 19:40   ` Stroller
2012-05-02  2:26     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-02  4:01       ` Stroller
2012-05-01 18:38 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2012-05-01 19:42   ` Stroller
2012-05-01 22:52 ` Walter Dnes
2012-05-02  3:58   ` Stroller

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