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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any way to elminate a logout shell w/ OLWM? Date: 6 Jan 1996 19:04:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4cmh4e$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Karl_Shepard.2.00094A36@ccm.jf.intel.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Karl_Shepard@ccm.jf.intel.com (Karl Shepard) writes: > I have scoured the man > pages and have been unable to find a switch that I can use to turn off the > xterm -ls requirement. I'm not sure that i understood your problem at all, but just for the record: xterm -ls pretends to start a login shell. (This is done by placing a `-' as the first character in the argv[0] value.) This causes the invoked shell to read all their login scripts (~/.profile for a Bourne-alike shell, ~/.login for a C-like shell). Without the -ls option, the shell doesn't source these files. C-shells still source ~/.cshrc, so perhaps you could put your critical environment things there. (Bourne-alike shells don't source anything for the non-login case, bash has it's own file, i think it's ~/.bashrc.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)