[3949] in Athena Bugs
All platforms, all releases (I think) - login path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. French)
Wed Jan 10 20:30:51 1990
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 90 20:30:26 EST
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The 10.001 IAP course instructor told users to set their path to:
set path=($path /mit/foo)
in their .path file. The "accepted" way to do this is to use
$athena_path, which is very different from $path at this point in the
initialization cycle. Presumably the reason path hadn't been set to
$athena_path before this was to avoid an extra directory rehash. This
problem has happened many times before: at least 3 SIPB documents tell
users to do this same type of thing, and users do it on their own as
the "intuitive" thing to do.
I assert that there is no excuse for $athena_path and $path to be
different at this point. The simple way to fix this problem is to
take login or xlogin or xdm or whatever program is doing these things
these days, and change its initial path to the contents of
$athena_path. Thus the path will be correct right from the start.
Rob
