Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!haven!adm!news From: SYKLB%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Ken Bell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: System-wide .login? Message-ID: <24926@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 3 Nov 90 05:28:48 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 12 On Fri, 2 Nov 90 19:16:00 EST Bill Wine, system manager, 437-7226 said: >When a user logs in to the C-shell, the files .cshrc and .login are executed. >Is there a way to have a file (other than login) run when each user logs in? >In other words, is there a Unix file equivalent to sylogin.com in the VMS >world? How about -- 'ln -s .login some_other_file' ? Or, simply have .login do nothing else but exec your preferred file? (What's "sylogin.com" and why is it better than ".login" ?!) Ken Bell (SYKLB@NASAGISS * SYKLB@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV * 212-678-5545) Acknowledge-To: