On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:15:52PM +0200, Francis Derive wrote:
:
: When I start an Xterm, I can quit the window only but with "exit"
: ( doing "logout" explicitly says "not login shell" ).
: I am surprised - shouldn't I be ?
Yes, you should be surprised.
: Because when I start a Terminal session, I can quit the window doing a
: "logout" ( "exit" do it also ) - but I am not surprised, as I
: understand in both cases I am running login shells. I was wrong ?
: how ? and why this difference ?
When you launch xterm, the shell it runs is an interactive shell,
but not an interactive *login* shell. As mentioned by another post,
you can change xterm's behavior via "xterm -ls" which tells xterm to
start a login shell.
Another method to include your login shell settings (and I will use
bash for my examples) is to move all of your settings into your
interactive shell init file (~/.bashrc) and have your login shell
init file (~/.bash_profile) read your interactive shell init file
(in your ~/.bash_profile, put in a single line: "source ~/.bashrc").
The "logout" command still won't work unless you alias it to "exit".
But I find it much easier (sometime to my horror) that CTRL-D works
just as well...
--
Eugene
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