ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) (12/22/89)
Some people seem to have misinterpreted my reply. I did not intend to say that /bin/csh should execute /etc/profile or ~/.profile. Boy do people think that I am that stupid, coming from Berkeley and using /bin/csh most of my natural life. The only real question was whether in the init process those files were executed (which they are not) as the /etc/environment is used to provide global environment setting by default. The correct solution to the jolly dilemma is for the system administrator to setup default ~/.cshrc and ~/.login files when the account is initially setup, like the ~/.profile which is setup by default in the out of the box AIX2.2.1. Since /bin/csh doesn't come with the base AIX system, I guess they didn't feel it necessary to document it in the system management manual nor create ~/.cshrc and ~/.login files automatically. /bin/ksh (for those of you who have it) does execute /etc/profile and ~/.profile when logged in though. Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + + last resort woan@peyote.cactus.org +