rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon) (02/04/91)
I've been using at recursively to run a program every night. I've noticed,
when I check the file in /usr/spool/at which holds the information at
uses to run my program, that it stores my PATH environment variable. This,
in itself, isn't a problem, since the man page says it should be doing this.
The problem is that my .cshrc file expands my PATH beyond the default,
with the command:
set path = ([some directory] $path [some other directory])
and apparently, evey time at is invoked recursively, it executes my .cshrc
file, which keeps making the path larger and larger, like this:
PATH='[some directory repeated eight times] [my default path] [some other
directory repeated eight times]'
What I'd like to know is: Is there some way I can suppress this? Since
this PATH information is stored in a file to be used by at, it could
conceivably take up disk space relatively quickly. Neither of the extra
directories are required to run the program I want to run; for the purposes of
what I'm trying to do with at, they're chaff.
Thanx.
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In article <5977@rex.cs.tulane.edu> rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes: >The problem is that my .cshrc file expands my PATH beyond the default, >with the command: > >set path = ([some directory] $path [some other directory]) > >and apparently, evey time at is invoked recursively, it executes my .cshrc >file, which keeps making the path larger and larger, like this: if ( path[1] != [some directory] ) set path= .... That way you only change the path when you need to -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940