tcsh and chere-0.3-1

Andy Grimm snarf@dimensional.com
Thu Oct 14 02:06:00 GMT 2004


> Actually that appears to be another bug in the script:  chere should
> invoke ash as "ash -" to start an ash login shell (I haven't tested
> this though).

Oops I made an error here.  There I go skimming man pages again :)  Ash 
will consider a process named "-ash" (argument zero) to be a login shell.  
This is hard to do unless you use something like bash's "exec -l" option
or maybe play with hard links which is ugly.  Therefore for ash you might
want to do the same thing I proposed for tcsh, reading in /etc/profile
then ~/.profile to set up the environment inherited by the exec'd shell.

-Andy


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