.cshrc

Christopher Nehren apeiron+usenet at coitusmentis.info
Fri Mar 25 15:40:33 PST 2005


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On 2005-03-25, Gert Cuykens scribbled these
curious markings:
> This is the shell config file right ?
> I created a new user and put a .cshrc in his home directory but
> nothing happens ?
>
> FX-53# pw user show gert
> gert:*:1001:0::0:0:gert:/usr/home/gert:/bin/sh
                                         ^^^^^^^
The user isn't using csh, so thus their shell won't read (and probably
isn't able to read) the .cshrc file which you've specified.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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