Hi
I wonder if this behaviour is desireable though, should INPUTRC not be set in /etc/bashrc, so all (interactive) shells have this set?
right. file a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com against bash
I wonder though ... it's really a manifestation of the fact that logging in via xdm/gdm/kdm starts a session which never invokes a login shell, and so /etc/profile is never read - opening a terminal in Gnome etc starts an interactive non-login shell and so /etc/bashrc and $HOME/.bashrc are read but not /etc/profile or $HOME/.bash_profile. At least that's my understanding. Googling around a bit, this situation has quite a histroy, and there was a time when /etc/profile was even sourced twice at login. This has been discussed at length lately by debian people here:
http://tinyurl.com/6mlw8
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&threadm=27SaO-2Hu-43%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=7&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dshell%2Binitialization%2BX%2B/etc/profile%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26selm%3D27SaO-2Hu-43%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D7
I myself am unsure about what the right way to deal with this is, but my feeling is that at somepoint during login /etc/profile should be read. Perhaps this is a discussion for fedora-devel ?
J.
