tcsh star-up files help needed

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:20:17 +0200 (CEST)
Konrad Heuer <kheuer2 at gwdg.de> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> 
> > Could someone explain to me what is the order tcsh's star-up file are
> > processed ? The man page is rather unclear for me: The shell may read
> > /etc/csh.login before instead of after /etc/csh.cshrc ....
> 
> Normally, tcsh reads its start-up files in the following order:
> 
> /etc/csh.cshrc
> /etc/csh.login
> ~/.tcshrc
> ~/.cshrc
> ~/.login
> 
> You can check this by typing:
> 
> echo $version
> 
> If "lf" doesn't appear in the options list, the order given above is used.

Thanks. This is the case.
Are the file in /etc override by user files ?

> > What I want and doesn't work if entered in /etc/csh.cshrc but works in
> > ~/.cshrc, if possible, is to have the prompt for all users
> >
> > if (${TERM} == 'screen') then
> >         set SCREEN_NAME = "/${STY:e}"
> > else
> >         set SCREEN_NAME = ''
> > endif
> >
> > set prompt = ........${SCREEN_NAME}.....
> >
> > with the intent of having screen(1) session name somewhere in the prompt
> > if the shell runs under screen or nothing if it is not under screen,
> > without having to add the above lines to all users ~/.cshrc
> 
> I'd check the contents of $TERM within /etc/csh.cshrc by echoing it to
> make sure that it is set as expected. Did you?

Now it works, donno why :)
 


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