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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: XDM and the .profile
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Wayne Willcox <wayne@obiwan.pmr.com> wrote:
: I recently installed XDM, and have it running. I have a question
: though how do you make it source the users .profile and kshrc?

The commands executed by xdm(1) after login are in scripts
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession*
depending how they are named in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.

Pascal
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