[9937] in Athena Bugs
RS/6000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wilfredo Sanchez)
Tue Sep 29 00:51:32 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 00:51:20 EDT
From: "Wilfredo Sanchez" <tritan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
I don't know how well this is know, but I've recently discovered that many
people are not aware of it, so I'm reporting it.
The loggin procedure on the IBM RS/6000 machines run sh on .xsession where
the other platforms allow other shells, eg. csh. So when I try to log into
an RS/6000 I get the following line:
.xsession: setenv: not found
because sh does not understand setenv. My default shell is
/afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh and this problem does not appear on any of the
other platforms. In order to be able to log into an RS/6000, I must either
rewrite my .xsession in sh, or ignore customizations, neither of which is
desireable and neither is really acceptable, as this is not documented as
far as I can tell and a user can reasonably expect it not to be a problem.
-Wilfredo Sanchez
tritan@mit.edu
