From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 30 04:43:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B395716A401 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C90313C4A6 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id l0U4hTTV030178 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:43:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:43:28 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070130044328.GA19656@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070129223730.GA7986@parts-unknown.org> <20070129231940.GD78513@dan.emsphone.com> <20070130011246.GB52136@parts-unknown.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070130011246.GB52136@parts-unknown.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: stupid scripting question: zsh X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:43:29 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 29), David Benfell said: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:19:40 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 29), David Benfell said: > > > I've been upgrading my FreeBSD system into a fully-fledged > > > desktop system. > > > > > > zsh as installed (from the port) seems only to recognize the > > > /etc/zshenv startup file. And I needed an stty command to get > > > proper backspace/delete behavior. Because only the /etc/zshenv > > > file seemed to be recognized, I had to put the stty command in > > > it. > > > > I'd start by figuring out why the other zsh startup scripts aren't > > being read. I install zsh from ports on all my systems and haven't > > seen this. Are you running zsh -f, or have you unset the RCS shell > > option from within zshenv? Either will prevent the other rc > > scripts from being loaded. If you run "truss -f -o log zsh", do > > you see it try to load zshrc? > > Okay, I figured out how to run truss (yes, I had the PROCFS and > PSEUDOFS options in my kernel). Yes, it tries to access /etc/zshrc. > I was trying zlogin, which I had seen on a Linux system. zlogin should be also read, but only on login shells. For testing purposes, you can force a login shell after you've logged in by running "zsh -l". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com