From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 13:16:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19740 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19649 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from [208.140.182.45] (symphony.enigami.com [208.140.182.45]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA21012; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:14:15 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ckempfm@enigami.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:09:57 -0500 To: spork , fbsdqs From: Cory Kempf Subject: Re: Path and xdm configuration Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 15:43 -0500 98.03.17, Spike Gronim wrote: >Hello. > > I am having troubles with my path, on a 2.2.5 machine. My shell is >tcsh.[...] The pertinent section of my .profile reads: 'sfar as I know, tcsh doesn't use .profile. >the pertinent section of .login contains: > >set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/bin >/usr/X11R6/ >bin /home/spork/bin) .login only gets run for the initial login shell. Under X, that means that xterm needs to be invoked with -ls. The proper place to put stuff that needs to exist for all invokations of tcsh is .cshrc Move your path statement from your .login to your .cshrc +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message