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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 4bsd .login and .cshrc
Message-ID: <3126@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 88 06:33:57 GMT
References: <326@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <7765@apple.Apple.Com> <27717@linus.UUCP> <111@infmx.UUCP> <27@denali.UUCP>
Reply-To: gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <27@denali.UUCP> crkarish@stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
>...
>Csh behaves differently on some SysV systems.  AIX doesn't source
>.cshrc on an su.

Yes, HPUX doesn't read cshrc, either. Or, I should say - it reads your
.cshrc, and doesn't care about the new user's .cshrc. It even takes
HOME and the other environment variables just from the parent process,
so simple "cd" brings you back into *YOUR* home directory, not into
the directory of the user to su'ed to.

"su - user" does read .cshrc *AND* .login under HPUX.

--Juergen
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Juergen Wagner,			           gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA