From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 3:26:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stud.ee.ethz.ch (tardis-delek-fast.ee.ethz.ch [129.132.2.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C90D14FD9 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 03:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lpruf@stud.ee.ethz.ch) Received: from tardis-a2.ee.ethz.ch (lpruf@tardis-a2.ee.ethz.ch [129.132.3.12]) by stud.ee.ethz.ch (8.8.4/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25170; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:26:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (lpruf@localhost) by tardis-a2.ee.ethz.ch (8.8.4/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18954; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:26:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: tardis-a2.ee.ethz.ch: lpruf owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:26:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Lukas Ruf X-Sender: lpruf@tardis-a2.ee.ethz.ch Reply-To: Lukas Ruf To: Ritwik Bhattacharya Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: CSH script -- Need help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Ritwik, On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote: > > I checked man limit. It's a built-in command of csh, that sets limits on > the resources a process is allowed to use. Maybe your defaults are a > problem? I don't use csh, so I don't really know much about this. Is there > a particular reason you need to use csh ? Bash is far more powerful. > I know, that limit is a built-in of csh. I already tried with different limits than th defaults -- bot no success. I know bash from my Linux ages, too. But since I changed to FreeBSD (I needed to -- since then I am really FreeBSD addicted :-) I have been using tcsh as the front end and doing my shell programming jobs with /bin/csh. I really appreciate the similarity of csh to C. Btw: Executing an empty script with nothing than #!/bin/csh fails. Executing it with tcsh