This sums up the answer to my problem -- it's from the login program... Thanks
to all who replied...
Sheila
>>>>> On 11 Jan 96 11:37:00 EST, "SYSTEM SUPPORT"
<SYSTEM_SF_at_unode2.nswc.navy.mil> said:
Sheila> We've been trying to find out where a "." keeps
Sheila> getting put into our path on login. We've checked the
Sheila> /etc/csh.login as well as our own .login and .cshrc
Sheila> files. (It's a c-shell.) Is there some other place to
Sheila> look? I did a grep -i for path in /etc and anywhere else
Sheila> that I can think of !!
The login program itself starts you off with a path of
"/usr/bin:." if it's not passed any other. Also note that any
accidental null elements of the "path" array in csh will
translate into "::" in the PATH environment variable, which is
interpreted the same as ":.:". This is particularly relevant at
the end or the beginning of the array, where incorrect usage of
'shift shellvar' or subscripting can cause this to happen.
Hope that helped.
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Received on Thu Jan 18 1996 - 14:19:33 NZDT