From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 14 11:12:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03237 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03229 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA15768; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:52:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Oliver Schmelzle cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing In-Reply-To: <33F33EBE.37416F5C@eng.sun.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Oliver Schmelzle wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the tcsh-port configures /etc/shells approprietly. > Maybe there was still some tcsh package information on your system that > stated that tcsh is still installed as a package. So it didn't reinstall > the whole package. > > oli. 6.06 had been installed as a package, but what I installed was 6.07.02 (port sources as of August 5, 1977). So both are now registered. There's nothing in the Makefile that looks as if it will alter /etc/shells as far as I can tell; (nothing comparable to the lines in the bash2 Makefile). But the PLIST suggests that it thinks /etc/shells has in fact been changed. (This isn't a problem for me in terms of writing it up for new users or any other way.) Annelise > > > > I deleted /usr/local/bin/tcsh from /etc/shells and reinstalled it as > > a port, and it at least did not do it; but I have added a note to > > 2. (above) that the port might do this step for you. Thanks. > > > > Actually I'm sort of glad the tcsh port doesn't do it, because part of > > the purpose is to get across the separate pieces of this thing. > > > > Annelise > > >