--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
