Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:08:51 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: using tcsh as login shell Message-ID: <20010409120851.F956@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <62835D8790DBD111981100805FA7E4C401C47ACD@EXPRESS1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <62835D8790DBD111981100805FA7E4C401C47ACD@EXPRESS1>; from KirschPE@utrc.utc.com on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:04:30PM -0400 On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:04:30PM -0400, Kirschner, Paul E. UTRC wrote: > How can I convert to tcsh from bash as my cygwin login shell? > > I tried changing from "bash --login -i" to "tcsh -l" (in cygwin.bat) and > added /etc/csh.login (copied from my Linux box) to no avail. It looks like > csh.login is not started. I changed from /bin/bash to /bin/tcsh in > /etc/passwd to no avail. > > How to do you this? tcsh doesn't start up as login shell if $HOME isn't set _before_ tcsh is started. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple