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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:25:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave <d_inabox AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: chere doesn't cd to directory
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- 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.

Also, tcsh reads the profile.d scripts from csh.cshrc rather than csh.login. So
a non login tcsh shell would also run the snippet (and cd $(HOME)).

That said, profile.d seems to be a good place for other generic startup that is
done by base-files, since all the shells run them.


Dave.


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