setting the path for an rsh account

Jack F. Vogel jackv at turnkey.gryphon.COM
Mon Oct 2 02:43:17 AEST 1989


In article <10058 at xanth.cs.odu.edu> paterra at cs.odu.edu (Frank C. Paterra) writes:
>
[ account of setting up rsh account deleted...]
>
>I have created a directory called /bin/rsh.commands and changed the
>path line in the .profile to
 
>set PATH=/bin/rsh.commands
 ^^^
>but when I login to this account the environment PATH variable says
>PATH /bin:/usr/bin

Your problem is you are confusing csh and sh syntax. What you want to use
is:
	PATH=/bin/rsh.commands;export PATH

Cheers,

Disclaimer: IMHO.

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