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Re: problem with athena default bashrc

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Sep 17 17:08:40 2000

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200009172108.RAA11869@Bearing-An-Hourglass.mit.edu>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18162] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>


>   /usr/athena/lib/init/bashrc sets CDPATH=~, which seems to do the wrong
>   thing in that it gives preference to one's home directory over the
>   directory one is in.  I suppose if this feature is for some reason
>   desired, one should set it to .:~, but I think the right thing is to nuke
>   it entirely.

Greg submitted a patch to change it to .:~ which has made it into the
current patch release.  I'm closing this report now.

-- 

	Jonathon

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