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Name: soothsayer
Date: January 25, 2005 at 06:08:31 Pacific
Subject: .login file
OS: Mandrake 10
CPU/Ram: 512

Comment:

Hi, i changed the login shell from bash to tcsh.
The .login file was not there so i created and edited it in order to set some environment variable. Here is all i got in .login:

setenv CVS_SHR ssh
But after logging out and in, i still couldn't find that variable. Why is that ? tcsh shell reads .login file when user's logging in right ?
TuanAnh

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Response Number 1

Name: cdac1000
Date: January 26, 2005 at 06:14:02 Pacific
Subject: .login file

Reply: (edit)

shouldn't you be using .cshrc instead of .login ?

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Response Number 2

Name: soothsayer
Date: January 27, 2005 at 02:04:14 Pacific
Subject: .login file

Reply: (edit)

Yeah, it works in .cshrc, but im wondering
why it doesn't work in .login. Doesn't the
shell read .login when it loggin in as
well ?

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Response Number 3

Name: Shadowlight
Date: January 27, 2005 at 15:52:36 Pacific
Subject: .login file

Reply: (edit)

You can find out by looking in the /etc/profile file.
There you can see which logonfile is used in your homedir.

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