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Reference to $bindir in .cshrc.mine

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 10 09:05:38 1989

From: <nschmidt@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 09:05:16 EDT

My .cshrc.mine file referred to $bindir in a set path command, and
this seemed to cause xlogin to crash, whether I used User Default or
System Default.  I received the message in the console window:

  bindir undefined variable
  Xsession returned non-zero status
  Select System Default

But it didn't work when selecting System Default!  I logged in using
Ctrl-p to bypass the system packs and renamed my .cschrc.mine and then
tried using xlogin again.  This time it worked.

This may be a common situation for returning students.

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