[aclug-L] Re: Executing commands at first login

[Nate Bargmann <ka0rny@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 08:59:21PM -0600, Jeff wrote:
> 
> Yes. Bash doesn't know the difference between your first login shell
> and your 4th.  I'd suggest changing it so that your normal xterms
> aren't login shells, or if you don't like that, put some brains into
> .bash_profile to figure out if this is the first login or not.

Thanks Jeff.

I've casually going through Beginning Linux Programming and I am in
the shell programming section so this will be a good exercise.  Should
be easy enough since printenv shows the SHLVL variable.

Thanks for the tip.

- Nate >>

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