Where to put shell settings under Suse

On 01 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

What runlevel? For runlevel 3 (text or command line mode), see the man page for your shell. You are looking at the point where they talk about a login shell.

For a GUI login, your display manager is the login shell, and you should see the man page for that application - XDM, GDM, and so on.

'tutorials and user guides' are nice, but the man pages are definitive.

It depends on your login shell environment, which is controlled in this case by the runlevel. Run the command 'ps afuxw' and notice which process is the 'first' one for you. The read that specific man page.

Quicky answer - GUI Login example xdm

After the user logs in, xdm runs the Xstartup script as root.

Then xdm runs the Xsession script as the user. This system ses- sion file may do some additional startup and typically runs the .xsession script in the user's home directory. When the Xsession script exits, the session is over.

Quicky answer - Text Login: See the shell man page, as 'c' shells (csh, tcsh' etc.) use one set of files, while Bourne-Korn shells (sh, bash, ksh, pdksh, etc.) use a different set. Typically, aliases go in theetc-bashrc (system wide) and ~.bashrc (individual user), while environmental stuff goes inetc-profile (system wide) and ~.bashprofile (user).

Old guy