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From: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: global .login for cshrc
Summary: system wide .login
Keywords: /etc/csh.login
Message-ID: <3579@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 21:19:47 GMT
Reply-To: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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Why isn't there a .login/.cshrc which system wide? It appears
there is two ways to create one:

1. Have every user be honest and keep a source /etc/csh.login line in their
   ~/.login. This has the disadvantage that they could remove this line.

2. Make everyones ~/.login a symbolic link to /etc/csh.login. The
   ~/.login file would be owned by root, readable by everyone, writeable
   by no one. The /etc/csh.login would have a last line which was 
   source ~/.userlogin. That way a user could put commands they
   want in a file called .userlogin, which gets called by /etc/csh.login.

Any suggestions? This all stems from the fact that some products require
enviroment variables, we write new commands such as print queue selection
commands that must be alaises so they can set someones env variable. 

Thanx, Roland


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Roland J. Schemers III                              Systems Programmer 
schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix)              Oakland University 
schemers@argo.acs.oakland.edu (VMS)                 Rochester, MI 48309-4401
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