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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0: tcsh oddity.
Message-ID: <kientzleD2B2B7.841@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 18:35:30 GMT
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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'. Here are some things I
checked:
1) /usr/local/bin/tcsh is correctly entered in /etc/shells
2) the entry in the password file is correct (as evidence, I _do_ get
tcsh when I log into those accounts that have tcsh as their default
shell)
3) /usr/local/bin/tcsh has the same permissions/owner as /bin/csh. Here
are some relevant results from ls -l.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 161 Jan 1 06:49 /etc/shells
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 225280 Nov 22 04:00 /bin/csh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 274432 Nov 22 04:00 /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 253952 Nov 22 17:57 /usr/local/bin/tcsh
I finally came up with a crude workaround (having .cshrc `exec tcsh' if
it's an interactive session), but that's not exactly a pleasant solution.
Any ideas welcome.
- Tim Kientzle
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.