From: Piscium <groknok@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: zprofile and .profile sourcing
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 22:37:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFMg86us4mMjoxT4O0EGGHnKdKwWbV=2ZON5kz6UAkBXGoVJYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out why ~/.profile is
sourced in some cases and not in others.
I am on Arch Linux, and zsh is my login shell. If I log in to Arch
over lightdm to a Xfce session, then a variable defined in .profile
becomes part of my environment. I think this is because in Arch
/etc/zsh/zprofile has a single statement that calls /etc/profile in sh
compatibility mode:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/zsh/trunk/zprofile
And here is /etc/profile:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/filesystem/trunk/profile
However if within Xfce I log in to a Linux console with Ctrl-Alt-F4;
or if I log in to a headless (no X, no Wayland) Arch VM in VirtualBox;
then a variable defined in .profile does not become part of my
environment. Why?
The Zsh man page says (in different sections):
"Login shells source /etc/profile followed by $HOME/.profile."
"If the shell is a login shell, commands are read from
/etc/zsh/zprofile and then $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile."
~/ zsh --version
zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
What am I missing?
next reply other threads:[~2022-09-08 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-08 21:37 Piscium [this message]
2022-09-08 21:42 ` Eric Cook
2022-09-08 21:45 ` Eric Cook
2022-09-08 22:12 ` Piscium
2022-09-08 22:30 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-08 22:45 ` Piscium
2022-09-13 7:28 ` Piscium
2022-09-08 23:14 ` Felipe Contreras
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