At 11:52 AM -0500 6/1/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: ... >> What I would like to understand is, what issues there are with being a >> "login shell", since it isn't the default? I've been find so far with my >> gnome-terminals not being login shells; I see that the virtual consoles are >> login shells, and it seems to be OK to be logged in more than once. >> >For a fairly complete explanation, run "man bash" and look for the >"INVOCATION" section. You should not run into any problems by using >a login shell. There is slightly more overhead for the system when >launching a login shell, but not enough to matter. It is possible to >have things set up in ~/.bash_profile that cause problems when run >in an gnome-term, but the default setup will not be a problem. >(There some interesting things you can set up for use with a serial >terminal, among other things...) I believe that the login option is >not the default in order to conform with the default xterm usage. >That way, it does not break custom configurations people have added. >The option to change it is there for people like you that want the >terminal in X to act the same as the CLI login. OK, thanks. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
