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From: evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm problem w/.profile&.login
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Date: 11 Jan 91 17:48:36 GMT
References: <127530@linus.mitre.org>
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In article <127530@linus.mitre.org>, dsr@mir.mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:
|> How can one get xdm to read the appropriate .login or .profile file for a 
|> user it is starting up?  Kind of a pain since you really don't want to
|> set PATH over and over again in the .cshrc file.

Usually, this is left up the the individual to place in their ~/.xsession. The
reason is because different people use different shells, and handling this in
a central location is actually more work than to have each user add something
like 'source ~/.login' on the second line of their ~/.xsession (#!/bin/{shell}
is usually the first line).

|> Also,  if one wants to run xdm by default, where is the best place to 
|> start it up?  (rc.local?  ttytab?)

This depends on the type of OS you are dealing with. For example, under OSF/1
you would make an entry in /etc/inittab, whereas under Ultrix, the easiest way
to do this is in /etc/ttys, while other systems use /etc/rc.local. In any event,
do whatever seems the most natural for your OS.

- Marc
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