global .login for cshrc

Roland Schemers III schemers at vela.acs.oakland.edu
Wed Oct 31 08:19:47 AEST 1990


Why isn't there a .login/.cshrc which system wide? It appears
there is two ways to create one:

1. Have every user be honest and keep a source /etc/csh.login line in their
   ~/.login. This has the disadvantage that they could remove this line.

2. Make everyones ~/.login a symbolic link to /etc/csh.login. The
   ~/.login file would be owned by root, readable by everyone, writeable
   by no one. The /etc/csh.login would have a last line which was 
   source ~/.userlogin. That way a user could put commands they
   want in a file called .userlogin, which gets called by /etc/csh.login.

Any suggestions? This all stems from the fact that some products require
enviroment variables, we write new commands such as print queue selection
commands that must be alaises so they can set someones env variable. 

Thanx, Roland


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