Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 09:34:16 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Echo Newline in tcsh? Message-ID: <200108082334.JAA25764@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> of "Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:04:43 MST." <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A049@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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drewt@writeme.com said: > Thank you for the informative explanation. Where is the proper place > to set environment variables so they are there between logins? And > where should I set it if I want it to be the default for all users and > any new users I might create? Actually, this isn't an environment variable (to be pedantic); it's just a shell variable. If you run "printenv" you will see that it's not listed. Also freddo# echo $echo_style both freddo# tcsh You have mail. freddo# echo $echo_style bsd freddo# exit exit freddo# which suggests that it isn't being inherited by child processes (unless it's being reset, but I can't see anything to indicate that). If you look at the man page for tcsh it has a section on startup files. For what you want, it probably should go in /etc/csh.cshrc in something like: if ($?tcsh) then # tcsh-specific stuff set echo_style=both endif Since FreeBSD doesn't have the "vanilla" csh, you're probably okay with just putting set echo_style=both in /etc/csh.cshrc, but I generally prefer to spell things out. Cheers Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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