Problem with bash login.

[Bill Sconce]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:47:05 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:

> On Friday, Jul 14th 2006 at 16:34 -0400, quoth Ben Scott:
> => I keep calling it .xwhatever because I can never keep all the
> =>various X startup files straight.  There's .xsession, .Xclients,
> =>.xinitrc, and some others, depending on platform.  I usually just end
> =>up symlinking all the .xwhatever files together.  :-)
> =>
> => Does that help?
> =>
> =>-- Ben
>
> 
> I'll try it next chance i get. the secire lab where the problem is is hard 
> to get to. Next shot will probably be around Tuesday.



<metacomment mode="curmudgeon">
  What we have here is an example of the fruits of growing an
  architecture by watering everything in the garden.  Professor
  Orr's frustration is shared by many, many users of Linux.  
  Namely almost everyone who's ever tried it.
  
  Professor Scott shares his frustration.  He's tried it.
  
  --Bill
  who is teaching "bash" at the moment and who canot quite
  bring himself to say to a classroom full of innocents, 
  "Everything is clean and straightforward".
  & who's also tried it...
   
  (&& who loves Linux anyway)
</metacomment>