System-wide .login?

Ken Bell SYKLB%NASAGISS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu
Sat Nov 3 16:28:48 AEST 1990


On Fri, 2 Nov 90 19:16:00 EST Bill Wine, system manager, 437-7226 said:
>When a user logs in to the C-shell, the files .cshrc and .login are executed.
>Is there a way to have a file (other than login) run when each user logs in?
>In other words, is there a Unix file equivalent to sylogin.com in the VMS
>world?

How about --  'ln -s .login some_other_file' ?
Or, simply have .login do nothing else but exec your preferred file?

(What's "sylogin.com" and why is it better than ".login" ?!)
Ken Bell (SYKLB at NASAGISS * SYKLB at NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV * 212-678-5545)
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