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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:36:39 -0400
From:      "Thimble Smith" <tim@mysql.com>
To:        Graham Menhennitt <gfm@mira.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: weirdness w/ gdb (and others) and home directory
Message-ID:  <20000410233639.F248@threads.polyesthetic.msg>
In-Reply-To: <6WHyOMQjgFa=nE46yanjvQgl54mP@4ax.com>; from gfm@mira.net on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:28:41AM %2B1000
References:  <20000410022851.B8117@threads.polyesthetic.msg> <19960102012211.B660@gamma> <6WHyOMQjgFa=nE46yanjvQgl54mP@4ax.com>

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:28:41AM +1000, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
>You don't have a line saying just "cd" at the start of your
>.profile/bashrc/.cshrc by any chance, do you?

Yes, I do.  I traced it down to that just now, and was getting
ready to reply to my earliner message like this:

*** WARNING:  I am a numbskull and anything I write in any of my
*** messages is probably total rubbish.  Please just delete this
*** message from your mailbox.

It's not a problem to put 'cd' into your .profile, because that
is only run on login shells.  If you're using FreeBSD's sh, it's
not a problem to put 'cd' in the ENV script, because it only runs
that script on interactive shells (as a security enhancement).

But if you're using, say, pdksh, then it runs the ENV script
on every shell invocation - and this was my problem.  I just
switched to using ksh recently and so ....

Thanks for the tip, and now I'm being more careful about my shell
init files, and what I put where.

Tim
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