Konsole doesnt use /etc/profile .

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

so i have to source /etc/update

because i try not to be a burdensome member of these fine forums, i tried putting "source /etc/profile in ~/.bashinitrc, and when that didnt work i tried to put it in ~/username/kde-3.3/share/config/konsolerc, but that didnt work.

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

You got the title correct but not the command

(source /etc/profile)

What exactly's wrong? Konsole should be acting just like the ttys.
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nahpets · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:18 am Post subject:

The first line of my "~/.bashrc" is:

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

what happens is simply that when i open console it doesnt reflect any of the changes i made to the /etc/ptrofile file.

i tried putting that line back in ~/.bashrc, this time at the end. i tried with and without the . b/w the source and the /etc/profile

nahpets · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:44 am Post subject:

If you do "source /etc/profile" manually, do your changes work?

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

important: i forgot to mention, when i su to root it takes the /etc/profile file, with nothing added to any *rc file

nahpets · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:08 am Post subject:

If you look in "/etc/passwd", is "/bin/bash" the shell being used for the user having problems? My root user looks like this:

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

yeah, thats the first line

rouben · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:35 am Post subject:

There's got to be an option somewhere to tell bash to start as a login shell...

Deepak420 · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:20 am Post subject:

What exactly are you trying to change? While I use .bashrc almost exclusively, I have added some stuff like /usr/local/bin to the path (in /etc/profile) and this reflects on all of the user accounts in konsole.

greg_g · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 180

This thread is probably helpful:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-297321.html

blotto · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject:

Hi I start my konsoles from the kicker panel or desktop and I modded the properties of the panel icon to be

konsole --ls

this starts the console as a login shell and it sources .bash_profile in my home directory