From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 15:33:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C2316A50E for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:33:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE2B43D41 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:33:32 -0500 Message-ID: <41519B47.9020402@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:33:27 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phil@sal-n-phil.net References: <1095692181.643.3.camel@gw.internal> <1095708454.643.10.camel@gw.internal> <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> In-Reply-To: <1095862932.39983.9.camel@gw.internal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2004 15:33:32.0609 (UTC) FILETIME=[84879B10:01C4A0B9] cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installkernel help required. (ANSWER... sort of) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:33:30 -0000 Phil Payne wrote: >On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >>On 2004-09-22 13:44, Phil Payne wrote: >> >> >>>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)? >> >> > >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. > > 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