Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:58:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: mike parks cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: problem with setting up tcsh as default shell In-Reply-To: <00cf01c2798b$44fa61f0$2c0f530c@mike> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, mike parks wrote: > hi, > > i am having trouble setting tcsh as my default shell. cygwin does not > seem to pick up the settings in the .tcshrc from my $HOME directory. > > i started with the default profile and csh.cshrc files that came with > the cygwin download. > > i noticed that cygwin seemed to start the bash shell from cygwin.bat. so > i replaced the 'bash...' line with 'tcsh'. > > as a matter of course i tried changing the syntax of the profile file to > more > tcsh/csh style as it appeared to be sh style thinking that may be the > problem but to no avail. > > i added echo commands to the profile and .tcshrc files to see if they were > being executed but i never see the echo's coming out. > > i would appreciate any suggestions you may have. > > thanks > dazed and confused > > mike Mike, I assume you've translated bash's --login option to tcsh's -l. A login tcsh executes /etc/csh.login, not /etc/csh.cshrc, IIRC. Hope this helps, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/