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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:23:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Dave <d_inabox AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: chere doesn't cd to directory
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote:

> CHere didn't work because you either have an old or custom /etc/profile.
>
> > In /etc/profile I need to replace the line:
> >
> > <snip>
>
> Yes, that does the job, but not completely.
>
> Look for the correct snippet in a recent /etc/defaults/etc/profile (part
> of the base-files package). If you don't have other modifications in
> /etc/profile copy the default file, which was updated recently. This
> also means you will pick up further base-files modifications when they
> are released.
>
> >Whether this will fix it for all shells, I'm not sure.
>
> The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile
> for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh.
>
> An appropriate modification for zprofile can be found in
> /usr/share/doc/zsh-<ver>/StartupFiles/etc/zprofile (installed with zsh).
> zprofile is updated in a similar way to profile, so use the default if
> you want to pick up updates.
>
> Appropriate modifications for csh.login should appear in the next
> release. They are similar to that in profile.

Dave,

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.
	Igor
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