Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010913154810.02fa7a50@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:50:36 -0400 To: Michael Hoffman , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Running tcsh in rxvt Cc: belg4mit@MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.1.2.20010913145559.03034a08@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:39 PM 9/13/2001, Michael Hoffman wrote: >Obviously I have missed the penultimate message in this thread. I >suppose it was private to Larry. I believe this whole thread went to the list, but I didn't pay too much attention to that! ;-) >On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > > At 02:49 PM 9/13/2001, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > >[> > Larry Hall wrote:] > > > > >How so? Works fine for me. > > >rxvt window pops up then exits > > > > OK, must be a local installation difference. Like I said, it > > works fine here for me. The only time that I got something similar > > to what you describe was when I mistakenly put double quotes around > > the "tcsh -l" in rxvt invocation I suggested. Obviously that was an > > error which made rxvt exit immediately... > >I have had similar problems in the past with bash and can reproduce >this one with tcsh. Use an absolute pathname to the login shell to get >it to work. > >Try rxvt -e /usr/bin/tcsh -l > >It also doesn't work for me without an absolute path, even if the >shortcut sets the directory to C:\cygwin\bin. It _does_ work if I use >./tcsh (or ./bash) instead of just tcsh. If it works for you, you >probably have . in your PATH. The documentation in >/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-2.7.2-README suggests using an absolute path, >probably to avoid issues like this. > >I don't get the expected login shell behavior when using tcsh like >this. I don't use tcsh, so I suspsect this is because I have no >/etc/csh.cshrc or /etc/csh.profile to tell tcsh how to set the home >environment variable. I'll let people who actually use tcsh deal with >this one. :-) Good point Michael! It's always important to make sure that you're path is set up as you intend to use it. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/