On Sat, March 5, 2005 9:25 am, Dave said: > --- 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.
Not if there was a script called (something like)... 00cd.sh included in the base-files which just did a cd $HOME. As long as the chere script was after this one it should cd $HOME then cd $CHERE... thoughts? J. -- 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/
