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Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile
- From: Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:49:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >>> Then what is the value of $SHELL?
>> >
>> > /bin/bash
>>
>> What user actually starts the session? I've seen this type of thing
>> when the cron daemon starts a session. The profile files are never
>> read.
Don't have cron running. I start it as me, the logged in user, from a
mouse click or running "startxwin" in a mintty. Behaves the same
either way.
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