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- From: paul@aztec.ucsc.edu ( Paul Tatarsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: What makes /usr/bin/X11/userenv tick?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:56:49 GMT
- Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
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- I am setting up XDM on an non-SGI system, and find myself wishing I
- had the source for /usr/bin/X11/userenv. I am looking for a way to
- have the users environment variables be used by the XDM Xsession
- script, _without_ making the Xsession script a /bin/csh script and
- sourcing the $HOME/.cshrc file (something that causes problems if the
- user has a bunch of tty oriented commands), and without forcing them
- to place the commands in their .xsession.
-
- So, eval `/usr/bin/X11/userenv` would make a nice little one liner in
- my non-SGI Xsession. I did a strings on userenv and see that it does
- something with /bin/env which I do have available, but what does it
- do?
-
- I've tried all sorts of shell script eval's and execs to get this
- "login" emulation out of Xsession, and have failed. Anyone? Some nice
- soul at SGI care to post the source? Some wizard care to elighten me?
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- Paul Tatarsky email: paul@cse.ucsc.edu
- UC Santa Cruz
- CIS/CE Board
- Technical Staff
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