Trying to use /bin/sh

[Sean Bruno]

I was attempting to simply set my EDITOR env variable for use on my
system today and discovered that I do *not* understand how computers
work.

After realizing that I simply do not understand what's going on, I broke
down and put an "echo test" into /etc/profile and ~/.profile.

I can't see why, but logging in via xdm/xfce4 isn't doing any of the
normal login things and nothing in my .profile is ever executed by any
shell, ever.

None of these get executed unless its a login shell.  xfce4 doesn't seem
to pick these up when starting up, so I have no idea what to do.

For now, I've put the needed things into a .bashrc and switched my
loging shell to bash, which is not really what I wanted to do.

Sean
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