thanks Igor for the info. i tried the 'tcsh -l' but that did not change anything.
does cygwin actually execute the csh.login or should i rename it to .login? when does cygwin execute profile? should i rename it to .profile? none of the books i have discuss this. thanks mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mike parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:58 AM Subject: Re: problem with setting up tcsh as default shell > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, mike parks wrote: > > > hi, > > > > i am having trouble setting tcsh as my default shell. cygwin does not > > seem to pick up the settings in the .tcshrc from my $HOME directory. > > > > i started with the default profile and csh.cshrc files that came with > > the cygwin download. > > > > i noticed that cygwin seemed to start the bash shell from cygwin.bat. so > > i replaced the 'bash...' line with 'tcsh'. > > > > as a matter of course i tried changing the syntax of the profile file to > > more > > tcsh/csh style as it appeared to be sh style thinking that may be the > > problem but to no avail. > > > > i added echo commands to the profile and .tcshrc files to see if they were > > being executed but i never see the echo's coming out. > > > > i would appreciate any suggestions you may have. > > > > thanks > > dazed and confused > > > > mike > > Mike, > > I assume you've translated bash's --login option to tcsh's -l. > A login tcsh executes /etc/csh.login, not /etc/csh.cshrc, IIRC. > Hope this helps, > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
