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Re: Setting $athena_manpath in /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Mon Mar 9 22:27:46 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> We don't set $athena_manpath anymore. I think only really ancient accounts
> have this set, and it was primarily useful on Sun where manpages were in 5
> million places, but since Ubuntu likes to bail if dotfiles refer to
> non-existent environment variables, we should probably just set it to MANPATH
> or something. I noticed we still honor $athena_path for ~/.path users, so we
> should probably honor this (or document that we're not honoring it).
Given that not having it breaks logging in for some number of people, and
that our long-term plan is to migrate away from tcsh entirely (so that
very small cleanups like not setting $athena_manpath have little utility),
we should probably just set $athena_manpath.
-Tim Abbott
