Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!ogicse!qiclab!techbook!kenh From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Login Script question(s) Message-ID: <1991May31.130923.12470@techbook.com> Date: 31 May 91 13:09:23 GMT References: <1991May17.173943.4575@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Distribution: na Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 40 In article <1991May17.173943.4575@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> bboyer@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Boyer) writes: >Why the difference?? Where does the U: drive come from, and why is it the >same as the Z: drive? And why is the Z: drive no longer a search drive?? >The system login script just contains the lines to insert the search drives >(and place the users in their personal directory) that you see in the first >version of the mappings, i.e. > >SEARCH1: = Z:. [FOO/SYS:PUBLIC] >SEARCH2: = Y:. [FOO/SYS:DATA] >SEARCH3: = X:. [FOO/SYS:AFWUTIL] >SEARCH4: = W:. [FOO/SYS:PUBLIC/WP51] > >MAP *1:=SYS:; *1:=SYS:\USERS\%LOGIN_NAME > >And why (in the second version) do I not get deposited into my own personal >directory (by the system login script) when I do in the first version??? > >I understand that there is a default login script that gets executed if the >user does not have a login script, but what is happening does not correspond to >what the manuals claim the default login script does. > >I really want to avoid adding a blank line to EVERY users login script just so >they have one. So is there any other way to avoid the default login script, >which is causing all of my problems, or is there some way to change it?? > Your right about the "default" login script being executed if you don't have a personal login script. You should add the EXIT command to the end of the system login script to avoid your problem. Of course your personal login script won't execute when you do that. Ken -- Ken Haynes, CNE 900 Support.... Novell Technical Support 7 Days a week/24 Hours a day UUCP: {nosun, sequent, tessi} kenh@techbook