Bug 88457

Summary: zsh startup fails to load /etc/profile.d/*.sh
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ben Liblit <liblit>
Component: zshAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ben Liblit 2003-04-10 07:47:35 UTC
Description of problem:

Many packages put shell initialization scripts into /etc/profile.d/*.{sh,csh}. 
Under Red Hat 8.0, zsh picked up the "*.sh" scripts, just like bash.  However,
under Red Hat 9, it no longer does this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
zsh-4.0.6-5

How reproducible:
Easily reproduced every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a package which uses profile.d scripts.  "less" is a good example.
2. Log in as a user whose shell is bash.  echo $LESSOPEN
3. Log in as a user whose shell is zsh.  echo $LESSOPEN
    
Actual results:
$LESSOPEN is set under bash, but not set under zsh.  More generally, no
/etc/profile.d/*.sh shell initialization scripts were run under zsh.

Expected results:
$LESSOPEN should have been set under zsh as well.  More generally, all
/etc/profile.d/*.sh shell initialization scripts should have been run.

Additional info:
Under Red Hat 8.0, /etc/zshenv contained the following:

	# Sourcing here to get it done on all invocations of zsh,
	# like bash.
	source /etc/profile

Those lines are no longer present in the Red Hat 9 release.  Perhaps they were
removed accidentally, and simply need to be added back in.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2003-05-01 01:19:01 UTC
Perhaps this should have gone into the release notes...

The lines were moved into /etc/skel/.zshrc because of
bug 65509 - not ideal for old users of course, but it seemed
to be the only compromise solution.


Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2003-06-03 05:03:17 UTC
*** Bug 92132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2003-09-04 06:32:45 UTC
*** Bug 102187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***