From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Loginscript
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49517D45.3040809@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <giruad$pid$1@ger.gmane.org>
René Berber wrote:
> Andreas Pfister wrote:
>
>> I have a question regarding the startup procedure of cygwin.
>> I tried to put an .login file into my home folder with an simple command
>> in it an suggested that this will be executed after starting up cygwin
>> but nothing happened. Any ideas or approaches to get that work ?
>
> .login only works with csh (tcsh is also 'c-shell'), Cygwin uses bash
> which use .bashrc and a few others to set up things at startup.
For those curious about the details, see the bash (or tcsh) man page.
For those keeping score, this is not a Cygwin-specific issue. ;-)
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-24 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-23 23:17 Loginscript Andreas Pfister
2008-12-23 23:35 ` Is it possible to install cigwyn application passing the setup? Alexander M. Batishchev
2008-12-24 0:26 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2008-12-24 0:05 ` Loginscript René Berber
2008-12-24 0:08 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2008-12-24 8:24 ` Loginscript Thorsten Kampe
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