On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Steve Revilak wrote:

> Guy Wrote:
> 
> /Now I had a hell of a time getting this to work.  First I tried just
> /like they said and put this into .login in root's home directory. (I'm
> /using tcsh)  That wasn't  setting the variables when I logged on.  Then
> /I tried putting those lines in  .xsession because I'm running xdm.
> 
> Were you logging in as root?

  Yes, I was.


>              
> /Did I do the right thing by putting the path setting script lines in the
> /.cshrc file in /root?  Should I have just put them in /etc/csh.chsrc?
> /
> /  Why did .login seem to have no effect on setting those path variables?
> 
> The big difference between .login and .cshrc is that .login in only
> evaluated once -- when you log on, and .cshrc is evaluated every time
> you execute a subshell.  Just to see what's going on put the line
> 
> 	echo "bottom of login"
> 
> at the bottom of .login the line
> 
> 	echo "bottom of cshrc"
> 
> at the bottom of your .cshrc.
> 
> Then login, startx, open a new window, open another new window, open
> another new window, etc.  You'll see the line from .cshrc printed each
> time.
> 

Yes, I tried that and I found that .cshrc is the only one that seem
to be executed when I log on.  I'm using xdm and starting up with
the tcsh shell. 

Thanks for that experiment.

	Guy


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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, 50 MHZ, NetBSD 1.4!
South Korea
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