Re: [LUG] Debian and starting programs at login

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Keasley wrote:
> The only problem I am having is that when I login using GDM (rather than at 
> a tty) my .bash_profile doesn't get read. As this is what I use to 

This is an example of Debian not hand-holding like Mdk, SUSE and RH. 
Bash is not customised once installed. There is a bashrc in /etc/
/etc/bash.bashrc

This should be copied to ~ as .bashrc - then when you next login, 
.bash_profile will be run, as dictated in .bashrc. There are other 
options on bashrc that a lot of people enable, like colours for ls, 
aliases and other tweaks.

> start up fetchmail and a couple of other things, this is a bit of a pain.

Couldn't that be a cron job?

> Does anyone know what I have to fiddle with to either get this file
> read when I log on, or where else I need to put the startup prgrams 
> to get them to start automagically? 

There are a number of other configuration files stored in appropriate 
parts of /etc/ that you might want to copy and use.
e.g. lynxrc, viminfo


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