tcsh login question ....

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 01:27:12PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 
> .... when I shell into my newly minted FreeBSD 9.3 desktop, or login w/ 
> a console login, everything under tcsh gets initialized AOK. I then 
> activated xdm to manage logins (I like it that way), the /ect/csh.login 
> file clearly does  *not* get sourced. I have many aliases, prompt 
> setting, & other goodies which are absent. The tcsh manpage clearly says 
> it will be sourced at login, what gives ?

The /etc/csh.login files is only read by *login* shells.

X11 terminal emulators do not always use a login shell. You often need to
start the terminal emulator with an option to do that.

If you put your customizations in /etc/csh.cshrc instead of /etc/csh.login,
that won't be an issue.


Roland
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