cd to Filecabinet at login

harold.e.bamford bamford at cbnewsd.ATT.COM
Sat Aug 12 05:18:04 AEST 1989


In article <1128 at adds.newyork.NCR.COM> tanya at adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz) writes:
>
>When I login to the Unix-PC somewhere in the login process
>there is a cd to /u/$LOGNAME/Filecabinet.

>If the user doesn't have a Filecabinet, as some users do not (uucpadm
>for instance) the error message:

>cannot cd to /usr/$LOGNAME/Filecabinet

>whips by.

>I think I tracked this down to the login process.  But does anyone
>know if we can turn off this attempt to cd to a non-existent directory??

I suspect that it is in the UA (User Agent) program, rather than in
login.  If you are not using UA (as seems likely), then don't call
UA from your .profile.

-- Harold Bamford



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