[9944] in Athena Bugs
Re: RISC/6000 .xsession handling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Tue Sep 29 18:43:50 1992
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:43:34 -0400
To: tritan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU, basch@Athena.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: andrew j. cassidy's message of Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:31:28 EDT,
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Andrew (honor) is correct; /bin/csh is not the same as /bin/athena/tcsh.
After talking with Chris Shabsin, it appears we are back to only your
problem; Chris's .xsession is running under csh, but one of his other
files might be in error. If you can supply me with all the error
messages and your .xsession script, it would greatly aid in tracking
down whether this is your problem. Another test would be to change the
first line to something like:
#!/bin/athena/tcsh -fx
The "x" flag will make the shell spew out everything. If you are able
to parse most of your .xsession file without errors, it is probably an
error in your file. The standard "if", "switch", and other constructs
are very different between csh and sh, and if you find you are
successfully parsing those, then you are certainly running under the
correct shell.
-Richard
