Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:33:27 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: phil@sal-n-phil.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of) Message-ID: <41519B47.9020402@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <1095862932.39983.9.camel@gw.internal> References: <1095692181.643.3.camel@gw.internal> <b2807d0404092012164482224f@mail.gmail.com> <1095708454.643.10.camel@gw.internal> <b2807d0404092012522360c8ba@mail.gmail.com> <1095710679.643.12.camel@gw.internal> <1095848367.4475.15.camel@gw.internal> <20040922103835.GA85905@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <1095849784.39983.2.camel@gw.internal> <20040922121549.GA870@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <1095857042.39983.6.camel@gw.internal> <20040922141843.GB1589@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <1095862932.39983.9.camel@gw.internal>
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Phil Payne wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
>
>>On 2004-09-22 13:44, Phil Payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:15, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Weird. Everything seems ok but you seem to be bumping on a problem
>>>>related to the shell in use :-/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Weirder... installed Eterm... and I can installkernel & install ports
>>>fine. So looks like its only aterm & xterm that have given me a problem.
>>>
>>>
>>Hmmm. What's your login shell? Is it really invoked as a "login shell"
>>by your xterms/aterms (i.e. with the -ls option of xterm)?
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>I use /bin/tcsh. It's not invoked by any aterm/xterm options, its just
>set in /etc/passwd. Is that what you meant?
>
>Phil.
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That's the first part. xterm doesn't {by default} set up your shell
as a "login" shell ... therefore it doesn't get certain environment
variables, and probably there are a few other things I don't know
about ...
A simple test: try typing "logout" to exit your xterm. If it responds
"not a login shell", then, well, it's not. Starting xterm with -ls should
help with the problem, as Giorgos stated.
Now, to further support the theory Giorgos has here, Eterm *does*
seem to use its "-l" option by default, so when using Eterm the terminal
would invoke tcsh as a login shell ... and things should work.
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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