New user .login file && a question

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <28862 at bbn.COM> mesard at BBN.COM () writes:
>grep -v "FIRST_LOGIN" ~/.login > /tmp/$user.login            #FIRST_LOGIN
>cp /tmp/$user.login ~/.login                                 #FIRST_LOGIN

>What gives?  Why would csh lose it's place in what I expected to be an
>unlink'ed but not yet forgotten file?
 ^^^^^^

You never unlinked the file.  Put a "rm ~/.login" in between the grep
and the cp.  Remember that this will lose the mode settings of ~/.login,

A better way would be something like:

	if ( -f ~/.firstlogin ) source ~/.firstlogin

and ~/.firstlogin could remove itself any time it saw fit.
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