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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!jabba.cybernetics.net!usenet From: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: tcsh oddity. Date: 12 Jan 1995 21:54:03 GMT Organization: http://hermes.cybernetics.net Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3f48dr$ado@jabba.cybernetics.net> References: <kientzleD2B2B7.841@netcom.com> Reply-To: james@hermes.cybernetics.net NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.cybernetics.net In article <kientzleD2B2B7.841@netcom.com>, kientzle@netcom.com writes: )I installed the tcsh package from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM, and happily )set my default shell to /usr/local/bin/tcsh. Which was fine until I )started X or invoked Emacs' shell-mode. In either case, I got `csh' )in my xterm or shell buffer instead of `tcsh'. Make sure that you are just starting xterm, and not "xterm -e csh", and that there are no strange X Resources infecting your environment. What is your $SHELL ? I have a 2.0R machine that I installed from CD-ROM, using tcsh as the shell without any problems. )P.S. Another head-scratcher that may be related: xdm won't let me login )to any accounts that have empty passwords. I press <ENTER> at the password )prompt and it announces `Incorrect password.' I asked about this in )comp.windows.x.i386unix and noone seemed to have seen this problem. Xdm )works okay with accounts that do have passwords. I've noticed that too -- I'd take it as a hint to add a password :-! -- : James Robinson : james@hermes.cybernetics.net ::See the screaming hot black :FreeBSD|XFree86 :The best things in life are Free:: steaming iridescent : Frank Zappa : Music is the best ::naughahyde python screaming : HTTP Server : http://hermes.cybernetics.net/ :: steam roller!