Re: some profile bashrc urxvt issue..

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

yea you answered, i re-read..

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 8:58 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. thank you big time
>
> 2. .. are you saying that
> it will read .bashrc not .profile or profile ? but it doesnt also read
> /etc/bash.bashrc ..
> i, erm, yea nothing special, i startx via .xinitrc is wmaker
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 8:54 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 08:42:35PM +0200, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> > > as far i understood, in /etc, .profile gets 1. sourced as login shell
> > > then if its again spawned its 2. the bash.bashrc
> >
> > You're not hearing me.
> >
> > If you login with lightdm on a regular installation of Debian 10 (for
> > example), bash is NEVER RUN AT ALL.  No bash.  The number of bashes
> > is zero.
> >
> > Lightdm spawns an X session, which on Debian is a /bin/sh shell script
> > that dots in various files under /etc/X11/.  One of the files that it
> > dots in eventually launches your window manager or your session manager,
> > which creates the GUI you chose.
> >
> > There is no bash.  (Because /bin/sh on Debian 10 is dash.)
> >
> > You don't get bash until you open a terminal, which runs bash as an
> > interactive non-login shell.  This shell reads ~/.bashrc and any
> > operating system specific hacks such as /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc
> > which differ from one Linux distribution to the next.
> >
> > /etc/profile is NEVER READ BY ANYTHING for this type of login.
> >
> > > so do you say
> > > those bashes in those xterms, they never did read the /etc's ?
> >
> > They never read /etc/profile because they are not login shells.
> >
> > They may have read OTHER files in /etc.  For example, /etc/bash.bashrc
> > which is what Debian's version of bash uses.
> >
> > This is why I keep saying that you need to consult your operating
> > system's support list for details on these things.  There is NO
> > universal answer.  Every operating system does these things differently.
> > Debian does it differently from Arch Linux, which does it differently
> > from Red Hat Linux, all of which do it differently from FreeBSD, ....
> >