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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Workspace launched from remote terminal
Message-ID: <67123@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 04:32:54 GMT
References: <9008150850.AA12394@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu> <1990Aug15.151151.1237@s1.msi.umn.edu> <67004@sgi.sgi.com> <1990Aug16.120834.19609@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Aug16.120834.19609@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> smfedor@solar.lerc.nasa.gov (Gregory Fedor) writes:
+---------------
| In article <67004@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
| >(*sigh*) Because of the way the window manager gets your environment vars...
| >... your example should read:
| > 	if ( ! $?ENVONLY && "`tty`" == "/dev/console" ) then
| > 	     workspace
| > 	endif
| 
| Potentially stupid question:  Does this apply for the /etc/cshrc file as well?
+---------------

Yes. (*sigh*)

The "exporttonews" program (in the case of "csh", "sh" is similar) actually
does, in a manual equivalent of "popen()":

fork();
...other stuff...
execl("/bin/csh", "-sh", "-c", "source .login;echo ::: ENV;exec /bin/env", 0);

Note that arg#0 ("-sh") begins with a "-" indicating a "login shell"
(see the csh(1) man page).

So, yes, both /etc/cshrc and ~/.cshrc get run.


-Rob

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