Captive login and runlevel 5

One login on my house server (FC4 / Gnome) is a captive login. By that I mean that the last two lines in .bash_profile are:

km amanda
exit

where km is a menu program that runs in a Linux console or an xterm terminal window. It works as expected from a console login at run level 3 or from a remote ssh login at run level 5. However, any attempt to login to that user from the console at run level 5 logs out again almost immediately with a message about an unexpectedly short login and a warning that this could be due to a system or configuration problem.

How can I adapt .bash_profile to work cleanly at both run level 3 and run level 5?

At a guess substituting

gnome-terminal --command="km amanda"

for "km amanda" should work at run level 5, but what's the best way to detect that run level != 5 or that the login is via ssh and just issue "km amanda" ?

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