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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rsh environment
Keywords: no /etc/profile sourced?
Message-ID: <15215@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 06:50:17 GMT
References: <1276@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> <955@riddle.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <955@riddle.UUCP> andrew@riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie) writes:
>DID YOU BSD PEOPLE HERE THAT ???
>
>...  On our Xenix boxes with Excelan the remote shell has $SHELL set up
>from passwd so the fix is to use csh and set up the environment in
>$HOME/.cshrc ....

Where do you think Excelan got the idea?

4BSD's `rsh' remote shell (not restricted shell) runs the login user's
shell.  If that shell is a `csh', it reads ~/.cshrc under the usual
restrictions for `csh -c' commands.

It *would* be nice to have an `rsh' that propagated the environment.
I resort to an `sh' script that does this for $DISPLAY for X11.
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