Hi everyone,
Many heartfelt thanks to the following for their insight:
Sean O'Connell
Elliot Smorodinsky
Kris Larsen
Stephen LaBelle
Trevor Stott
Lucio Chiappetti
George Guethlein
(Original post follows summary)
Most people suggested manipulating /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login as
these files are consulted by csh users before their $HOME/.cshrc files.
When I tried specifying the "source" line in /etc/csh.cshrc, I was given
the error "source: not found", even though a "which source" produced
/builtin/source.
What I ultimately did was create a .cshrc file for the users and put the
"source" line in there. When I copied the .cshrc file from /, I was
overwriting the users "current" path.
So, the fix was a barebones .cshrc file in the users' home directories
with the single "source" line in it.
Interesting to note though: The users pathings are still remaining
predefined, but not by the .cshrc, .login, /etc/csh.cshrc,
/etc/csh.login files. I can't figure out where they are coming from,
but the fire is out for now.
Thanks for all your help!!
Andy Townsend
Computer and Electronics Services
Horn Point Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
townsend_at_hpl.umces.edu
Good morning,
I have installed some software (IDL 5.0) on an Alpha running DUnix 4.0.
The software required modifying the .cshrc files of the users who were
going to be using the software.
The users did not have .cshrc files in their home directories. I copied
the .cshrc file from the / directory (the /usr/skel/.cshrc file did not
have anything in it other than a set mail variable) to the users' home
directories and modified them per the needs of the IDL software. Now
one of the users cannot run some scripts he had been running. If I
remove the .cshrc file from his home directory, he's fine.
I have two guesses. First of all, his pathings might have changed by
the new .cshrc file so the scripts are no longer in his path. Secondly,
the scripts might rely on environment variables that were reset when I
copied over the .cshrc file.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on? If I inadvertantly
changed his pathings, where were they coming from in the first place
since he didn't have .login or .cshrc files in his home directory?
Similarly, if I reset some environment variables, where might they have
been set initially?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much,
Andy Townsend
Received on Tue Nov 11 1997 - 16:45:59 NZDT