Summary: | .bashrc and /etc/rc.conf variables and settings not correctly initialized by /etc/profile | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Arlo <coderarlo> |
Component: | [OLD] baselayout | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | major | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Arlo
2004-09-09 22:29:20 UTC
when you launched a new xterm it probably took $EDITOR from your active environment which means it ignored the new setting ... as for ~/.bashrc, it's probably because `su -` invoked a new login shell which means ~/.bash_login would have been read and not ~/.bashrc ---> not a bug The previous comment was correct. I misunderstood the role of /etc/profile in all of this. Using .bash_login fixes my root problem and I guess EDITOR is set only once by the xdm. Thanks for the clarification. |