Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/05/04:54:05
On Sat, March 5, 2005 9:25 am, Dave said:
> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote:
>> > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile
>> > for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh.
>
>> I don't recall if this was part of the discussion, but any particular
>> reason you're not doing this in a /etc/profile.d script instead? That
>> way, it would work even with a custom /etc/profile.
>
> I honestly hadn't thought of that... and I don't recall it being
> mentioned.
>
> The issue is that chere wants to stop the standard login script from doing
> the
> usual cd $(HOME). The profile.d scripts get run before the cd, and hence
> th cd
> happens anyway. If the order were changed, we'd have lost the directory we
> wanted anyway.
>
> The 'cd $(HOME)' could be removed from /etc/profile, but then the
> profile.d
> script would be required even when chere were not installed.
Not if there was a script called (something like)...
00cd.sh
included in the base-files which just did a cd $HOME. As long as the
chere script was after this one it should cd $HOME then cd $CHERE...
thoughts?
J.
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