Script .cshrc not executed, why!!??

[X Y]

It's invoked at shell startup.  "man tcsh" for the gory details.
That has more info than most people need :-)

Hi Matt,
 
I thank you for responding.
Your advice, copied above, may help me. I will have a look and let you know.
I use that particular box to write, test and document software and I do not need
a connection to the Internet. I use other boxes to connect if I need information,
which I need very often.
 
Regards!!
 
 
 
 
 
 


--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:


From: Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>
Subject: Re: Script .cshrc not executed, why!!??
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:31 AM


From: X Y <achaios_1 at yahoo.com>
> I have been running fedora 6 for almost three years now

That's 4 or 5 revisions behind the curve, but whatever.

> I am using the C shell, a bad habit

Yes, it is :-P

> A few days ago, I noticed that I could not use aliases set in my
> personal .cshrc. It was easy to trace the problem to .cshrc not
> being executed at start up (to save energy i. e. money, I switch
> off the box when I do not need it).

Man page for tcsh says that ~/.cshrc will only be sourced if
~/.tcshrc doesn't exist.  Also, ~/.login may be sourced first,
depending.  Most people want login and non-login shells to have
the same behavior, so typically they have a non-existent .login
and put all their stuff in ~/.bashrc .

> I have gone through init and, I think, all scripts that are
> executed at start up, I have not been able to find a place where
> my personal .cshrc is invoked or could be invoked.

It's invoked at shell startup.  "man tcsh" for the gory details.
That has more info than most people need :-)

> I have also noticed that my vi editor is behaving strangely.

Specifics are essential to solving this.  Provide them.

> It was August 2008 when I connected the box to the Internet for
> the last time, using an external modem.

Wow.  In most cases, a computer that's not hooked up to the Net is
about 1/100 as useful as one that is.  At least in this modern age....

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