[YLUG] gnome-terminal/fedora 10

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Harry Mills wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I run gnome-terminal, it does run .bash_profile, but it looks like
>> that it should not.
>> xtern and terminal have the right behavior.
>>
>> Am I correct ?
>>
>> How can avoid to run .bash_profile when I run gnome-terminal ?
>>
>> Thank
>>
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> .bash_profile runs when a bash login shell is executed. .bashrc is run for
> non-login bash shells. gnome-terminal should normally run .bashrc as it
> isn't executing a login shell. (
> http://joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html). Check the
> gnome-terminal preferences and look at the contents of .bashrc and
> .bash_profile to ensure that one is not sourcing the other.
>
>
No,
On my machines (fedora 10), .bash_profile is run either from bash or
from gnome-terminal (in fact .bash_profile then runs .bashrc)
On the other hand, terminal and xterm run .bashrc (and not .bash_profile)

Do you have a different bahavior ?

Thank.

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  Patrick DUPRÉ                      |   |
  Department of Chemistry            |   |    Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
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  Heslington                         |   |
  York YO10 5DD  United Kingdom      |   |    email: pd520 at york.ac.uk
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