--- "John Morrison (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
This is OK as long as 00cd.sh does the full chere incantation, otherwise we lose the directory we want to go to. 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/
