.bash_profile not run when using graphical login

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:24:10AM +0800, John wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't think, haven't checked, that that _is_ what Debian policy says - 
>>it's not what those who know have said. Practically nothing works that way.
>>
>>PATH is an environment variable.
>>BASH can be configured with environment variables.
> 
> 
> And if you start bash without a PATH environment variable set, it still
> works.
> 

Whoops. So it does. Actually, I quite like the default path:-)

HOME is another matter. It requires USER and/or LOGNAME to be set for 
proper operation.





Judging from the clutter in my environment there's a lot of stuff on 
Sarge that _is_ configured with environment variables, will not work 
properly if they're not set.