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Re: FW: [Cooker] Default /etc/zshrc and russian loale problem



On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> As to the specific question of whether /etc/profile.d/*.sh should be read
> from /etc/zprofile or /etc/zshrc, the problem there likely is that xterm
> and similar emulators typically start interactive shells that are not
> login shells, so if you're logging in via the XDM console you *still*
> won't get the locale settings if they're read only from /etc/zprofile.
>

Locale problem is specific to Linux console and does not exist under X11
at all. But other settings really setup not login but interactive shell
environment. It is somewhat confusing that they live in profile.d as this
is associated with login shell.

-andrej



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