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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:10:26PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > > My vague memory of the rationale for different shell locations had to do > > with extensive windbaggery and different interpretations of the File > > Hierarchy Standard, which of course was supposed to resolve these kinds > > or problems for all unixes. > > You have cause and effect reversed. Maybe you mean that the FHS people have cause and effect reversed. I have no illusions about this stuff. > > - You are one of the people who likes tcsh, [...] Your company has some > > network thing that [...] uses fixed paths to specify shells, and cannot > > specify multiple paths to try. > > % chsh /bin/sh > % cat > ~/.profile > exec tcsh -l > ^D > % #done Yes, there are workarounds, and they are hateful. You presume far too much, though. In my experience, the forces that be are capable of: 1) Keeping tcsh off the path on some of the systems. 2) Managing to drop some broken version of tcsh on some dark corner the path on some systems which exits on exec, logging you out. If you think there is some clever way out of the foxhole in #2, I assure that more or new stupidity will defeat you even still. -joshThere's stuff above here
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