[7713] in testers
Re: My Athena session will not run.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 18 18:29:30 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:28:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200809182228.m8IMSjvi000400@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
CC: testers@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200809182224.m8IMOFqd029673@outgoing.mit.edu>
> 1. Bill had a .tcshrc file. In Athena 9.4, we have a local
> modification to tcsh which causes .tcshrc to be executed in addition
> to, rather than instead of, .cshrc, but that's gone in Athena 10.
> So .cshrc wasn't getting run. We should document this.
I added this to the desupport section of the technical plan:
* If a .tcshrc file is present in a user's home directory, it will be
executed instead of .cshrc; this is the standard tcsh behavior. In
Athena 9.4 it is executed in addition to .cshrc.
Something similar should be added to the notes on athena10.mit.edu.
The practical upshot is basically "if you have a .tcshrc file you
should feel old and then get rid of it."
