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Re: linux 9.0.10: tcsh/csh.login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Jul 17 11:07:10 2001
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:04:29 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <20010717110429.A4333@multics.mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 17 Jul 2001
at 10:26:34 -0400 in <200107171426.KAA17309@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>:
> You asserted on zephyr that this was new behavior in 9.0, but I also
> get it (where "it" is the ls alias) when I ssh into alice-whacker, an
> 8.4.25 machine. It's certainly new that we have XFree 4.x client
> binaries and that we use gnome-terminal by default, both of which
> could affect whether ls actually displays in color in an X login.
Fascinating. I just removed the "unalias *" from my .tcshrc
and confirmed that I get the ls alias on cutter-john via ssh,
but not on alice-whacker via ssh.
*investigates*
It appears that under 8.4, /etc/profile.d/* is run from /etc/csh.login,
however under 9.0, it is run from /etc/csh.cshrc.
Since I never use tcsh as a login shell, /etc/csh.login is never executed
for me.
I must say I'm puzzled, it seems like it would be "more correct"
to do it the 8.4 way.
--jhawk
