Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Michael Leuchtenburg
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 17:17 on 10 Dec 2006
Spake Yossi Kreinin:
> I use tcsh because other people use it for writing scripts I have to run. 
> Those people use tcsh to write these scripts because these scripts set 
> environment variables, so you must source them, not execute in a sub-shell, 
> and people use tcsh as the interactive shell because that's the default 
> system configuration around here, and so they source scripts from tcsh, so 
> there you are.

It's scripts like that that made my login situation on the CAD machine
hateful. My default login shell is zsh 3. I then exec tcsh, and load
some scripts to set environment variables. Then, I exec zsh 4, built in
my homedir because my sysadmin is, er, lazy. And then, only then, can I
actually start doing things.

At least it's partially hate of my own generation. But still. Ugh.

p.s. Yes, I know it'd be better to have tcsh as my logic shell, but I
can't actually *change* it - only admins can do that, because we have
some hateful homebrewed distribution system for shells and passwords.

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