[SunHELP] .Profile is not my Friend

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:14:28PM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote:
> Since you're now on Solaris, I will gamble and posit that your shell is 
> not sh (/bin/sh). The commands in your csh/tcsh .login file are not at 
> all syntactically compatible with sh, or bash or ksh for that matter.
> 
> If you are indeed using /bin/sh, have your shell changed to tcsh 
> instead (if you are using Solaris 8 or better, then tcsh is included by 
> default - see /usr/bin/tcsh.)

Or better yet, learn bash.  It's just mo' bettah.[1]  :)

/me dons asbestos suit and awaits flames[2]   :)


[1] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

[2] the above is all intended in a spirit of good clean *nix fun.  :)


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