[8202] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.3M: system dotfiles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sat Sep 14 21:47:19 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 91 21:47:52 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
What were you trying to do?
log into a rs/6000
What's wrong:
the path in my .environment file is different than on all
other athena machines. /bin/login isn't custom, so the path
is only what rsaix considers in my path. This means programs like
attach aren't found
What should have happened:
The path should be set to the athena path before .environment is run.
I recommend the following patch:
*** /usr/athena/lib/init/cshrc Thu Aug 1 03:48:36 1991
--- /tmp/cshrc Sat Sep 14 21:42:50 1991
***************
*** 35,40 ****
--- 35,42 ----
setenv MANPATH $athena_manpath
+ set path=($HOME/$bindir $athena_path .) # Standard Athena path
+
# Run user environment customizations identified in your /.environment
# file. This is the place to include your own environment variables,
# attach commands, and other system wide setup commands. You can also
***************
*** 52,63 ****
# not appended. ~/.path is not sourced if the xlogin "SYSTEM"
# option was selected to begin the session.
! if ((! $?NOCALLS) && (-r ~/.path)) then
! source ~/.path # User-specified path
! else
! set path=($HOME/$bindir $athena_path .) # Standard Athena path
! endif
!
endif
--- 54,60 ----
# not appended. ~/.path is not sourced if the xlogin "SYSTEM"
# option was selected to begin the session.
! if ((! $?NOCALLS) && (-r ~/.path)) source ~/.path # User-specified path
endif
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