Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: New user .login file && a question
Summary: cp(1) doesn't unlink(2) <dest>
Message-ID: <4563@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 23:00:53 GMT
References: <28862@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 23

In article <28862@bbn.COM> mesard@BBN.COM () writes:
>grep -v "FIRST_LOGIN" ~/.login > /tmp/$user.login            #FIRST_LOGIN
>cp /tmp/$user.login ~/.login                                 #FIRST_LOGIN

>What gives?  Why would csh lose it's place in what I expected to be an
>unlink'ed but not yet forgotten file?
 ^^^^^^

You never unlinked the file.  Put a "rm ~/.login" in between the grep
and the cp.  Remember that this will lose the mode settings of ~/.login,

A better way would be something like:

	if ( -f ~/.firstlogin ) source ~/.firstlogin

and ~/.firstlogin could remove itself any time it saw fit.
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