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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:08:51 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: using tcsh as login shell
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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

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