[X-Unix] Re: Need help w/.login and unix exec files

[Timothy Luoma]

On Jul 22, 2005, at 11:28 PM, ~flipper wrote:

> Timothy Luoma wrote:
>
>> On Jul 22, 2005, at 8:09 PM, ~flipper wrote:
>>
>>> All of a sudden, my tcsh isn't launching with my .tschrc file  
>>> being read first.
>>>
>>> That's a .login file issue, isn't it?
>>
>> Not necessarily.
>>
>> Do all these match?
>>
>>    finger `whoami` | fgrep 'Shell:' | sed 's#.*Shell: ##'
>>
>>    nidump passwd /|grep "`whoami`:" |sed 's#.*:##'
>>
>>    echo $SHELL
>>
>
> Well, all three of the command lines echo back:
>
> /bin/bash
>
> but with 'currently running processes displayed on the window bar,  
> i see tcsh, and i'm getting my % prompt, rather than the bash $
>
> that leads me to believe that the sheel is appearing as a normal  
> tcsh,but using tc version of the default OS X bash sh... does that  
> make sense? It makes sense to me, but... again, I don't actually  
> know what's going on.

Very strange.  Try this:

         exec /bin/tcsh -l

and see if that gives you back your tcsh shell.


> For "When creating a new Terminal window", it's got 'Execute this  
> command (shpecify complete path) and it's reading :  /bin/tcsh
>  But I've lost my imlicitcd, my 'less' setting for setenv PAGER,  
> all of my great aliases, etc.
>
> I know that when i migrated from Jag to panther to Tiger on one  
> Powerbook, and Panther to Tiger on the other, I dragged my  
> old .tcshrc file over, and i'm reading it now. It's still the same.
>
> It looks to be encoded in Western ASCII, but maybe it should be in  
> Unicode-8 now? i don't know.

does

     file .tcshrc

show 'ASCII'?  That's what my .zshenv and .bash_profile are listed as.

TjL