On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, mike parks wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am having trouble setting tcsh as my default shell. cygwin does not
> seem to pick up the settings in the .tcshrc from my $HOME directory.
>
> i started with the default profile and csh.cshrc files that came with
> the cygwin download.
>
> i noticed that cygwin seemed to start the bash shell from cygwin.bat. so
> i replaced the 'bash...' line with 'tcsh'.
>
> as a matter of course i tried changing the syntax of the profile file to
> more
> tcsh/csh style as it appeared to be sh style thinking that may be the
> problem but to no avail.
>
> i added echo commands to the profile and .tcshrc files to see if they were
> being executed but i never see the echo's coming out.
>
> i would appreciate any suggestions you may have.
>
> thanks
> dazed and confused
>
> mike
Mike,
I assume you've translated bash's --login option to tcsh's -l.
A login tcsh executes /etc/csh.login, not /etc/csh.cshrc, IIRC.
Hope this helps,
Igor
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