From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 00:35:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B009D16A417 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:35:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmc@dataabstractsolutions.com) Received: from smtp1.pacifier.net (smtp1.pacifier.net [64.255.237.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE3E13C481 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:35:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmc@dataabstractsolutions.com) Received: from [192.168.1.249] (unknown [198.145.202.34]) by smtp1.pacifier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE816F0D8 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:35:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Mark McConnell" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:34:58 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4731E932.30016.3F53E6F2@markmc.dataabstractsolutions.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: References: <4729F11D.29658.1FFC2B43@markmcconnell.iinet.com>, X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: "term: Undefined variable" emitted after startup scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:35:21 -0000 On 1 Nov 2007 at 22:00, Andy Harrison wrote: {Re: "term: Undefined variable" emit...}: > On 11/1/07, Mark McConnell wrote: > > On bootup, I see the message repeated several > > times, "term: Undefined variable". > > Were any of the shell rc files change recently? Like root's .profile > or .bashrc, or the ones in /etc/? > > - -- > Andy Harrison Thank you Andy - I didn't realize that root's .cshrc file would be used on bootup. I've changed the file to test for definedness before checking the value of $term. Mark --