[9939] in Athena Bugs
RISC/6000 .xsession handling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Tue Sep 29 06:25:45 1992
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 06:25:26 -0400
To: tritan@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[9937]
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Thank you for your bug report.
This is actually the FIRST report of the behavior you described.
One possibility is that your ~/.xsession file does not begin with a line
of the following form:
#!/bin/athena/tcsh
If your ~/.xsession script begins with this (or something similar),
there may indeed be a problem, but we will have to know more about your
setup to debug the problem (the consultants can probably help you to
determine if there is a problem with your account setup).
-R
[9937] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wilfredo Sanchez) Athena Bugs 09/29/92 00:51 (20 lines)
Subject: RS/6000
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
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