[Bio-Linux] help regarding BLAST running

Tim Booth tbooth at ceh.ac.uk
Mon Feb 4 09:28:16 EST 2013


Hi Tony,

> One other thing to note is that you need to set the Gnome Terminal to 
> run as a login shell to source the correct files from /etc/profile.d and 
> ~/.profile. The Gnome Terminal does not run as a login shell by default, 
> because it is a sub-shell that only sources ~/.bashrc, and it doesn't 
> inherit a shell login environment that a command-line sub-shell would. 
> This is a known problem with Gnome Terminal "bash" sessions.
> 
> > Gnome Terminal / Edit / Profile Preferences / Title and Command / Command [x] Run command as a login shell

I didn't know about this, but it won't affect most Bio-Linux users who
will be in ZSH rather than BASH.

Cheers,

TIM


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