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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: Where is default path defined?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.183718.1750@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:37:17 GMT
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- In article <long.50.724414965@vax.ox.ac.uk>, long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long) writes:
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- - Just a quicky. Where is the default path defined? Is it compiled in?
- - I checked the default .login, but it does not appear to be defined anywhere.
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- path is set up by csh from the environment variable PATH whenever the csh
- starts, and whenever PATH is changed (for good csh shells)
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- It can then be modified in $HOME/.cshrc and, for login shells,
- in $HOME/.login
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- Under IRIX (but no many other systems), csh also executes /etc/cshrc
- when running as a login shell.
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- You will find that many user admission agents (rexecd, rshd ...) have
- default values for PATH compiled in, in case no other mecahnism to modify
- it is exercised by the user.
-
- Thomas
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