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- From: Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no
- Subject: Re: How to make tcsh the login shell w/0 bothering operator? !FAQ
- In-Reply-To: jal41820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:58:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.003200*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
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- Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:32:00
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- ! :) Just out of curiosity, why not get your sysadmin to put the appropriate
- ! :)magic in /etc/shells? It's what, 20 seconds of work?
- !
- ! I know at uiuc, most (read all :) of the admins like to not have anything
- ! like that in a joe-user's directory, nor do they simply want to copy a
- ! compiled program, meaning they have to compile it themself. However,
- ! they don't want to be bothered with finding the source code. Usually
- ! here a person (in this case) would have to find the source code, set it
- ! up in /tmp, and ask *very* nicely. :)
- ! --
- ! Josh Laff # #
-
- If it's that troublesome, chsh to (or ask for) /bin/sh as your login
- shell, because it is definitely going to be fastest one to start up of
- them all. Do set up a minimalistic $PATH, check for and exec your
- favourite shell binary from within your .profile
-
- It is recommendable to create a symbolic link to the shell executable --
- the symlink name should start with a dash (-) and be placed in one of your
- $PATH dirs -- then exec the symlink in order for the shell to process
- its proper login files.
-
- Simple as that....
-
- ~~harald E.
-