From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 01:50:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA22708 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 01:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22700 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 01:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA12256; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:50:33 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA02091; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:50:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA14707; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:35:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602250935.KAA14707@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: X help To: coredump@nervosa.com (invalid opcode) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:35:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ajones@ctron.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "invalid opcode" at Feb 24, 96 08:53:17 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As invalid opcode wrote: > > > xterm: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > Have a close look at your ~/.cshrc, ~/.login, or ~/.profile (depending > This wouldn't even have anything to do with it unless xterm is executed > with the -ls switch. I suppose you aren't using the csh. It does _always_ execute ~/.cshrc (that's the difference to ~/.login). Bourne-alike shells don't provide for this, yes. They provide for ${ENV}, but for the first invocation of a shell, this would become a chicken-and-egg problem. Btw., i consider this an incredible advantage of the csh. Bourne- alike shells totally lose in this area when it comes to things like remote shell command execution, and adjusting ${PATH} for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)