When I open a new terminal emulator in Xfree86, whether it be gnome-terminal, konsole, or just xterm, .bash_profile is not sourced. A .bashrc isn't read, either.<P>Additionally, what would be the best ...

I'm trying to get a number of variables setup on login and have put them in this file.<P>The user uses bash as it's default shell but .bash_profile dosn't seem to run on login.<P>What am I missing ...