A Shell Question

[Tom Callahan]

you have the right idea. As far as getting your profile to load
correctly after executing tcsh...either run "source /etc/profile" or ".
/homedir/.tcshprofile" note the space after the period.

I am unaware of a different way to do this, besides defining it in
usermod. I guess you could create a wrapper of sorts to act as your
shell, and depening on the returned $HOSTNAME variable launch the
appropriate shell....not sure if this would work though. IE: write a
shell script that checks the variable, and then launches the appropriate
shell, name this script /bin/customlogin. Using usermod, set your
default shell to /bin/customlogin.

Again, I'm not sure if this would work, but it seems relatively valid...

Thanks,

Tom Callahan
TESSCO Technologies
(443)-506-6216
callahant at tessco.com

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Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:

>   Hello,
>    I have the following question. Iam having my HOME directory
>    on AFS and the default shell is bash. But when Iam logging
>    on a desktop linux machine(pc1234) (afs SW is installed on this
>machine)
>    I would like to have tc-shell. So I did the following changes
>    in my .bashrc file for that:
>
>     if [ $HOSTNAME == "pc1234" ]
>then
>    cd /home/username
>    /bin/tcsh
>fi
>
>     With this I can have tcshell. But the file .cshrc with number of
>     local definitions(alias, senenv) are not executed and I have to 
>     write twice exit to logout from my session(first from tcshell
>session
>     and then from bash). I donot want to change the shell permanently
>     with chsh command. I would like to have tcshell only when Iam on
>pc1234
>     and like to have .cshrc executed.
>
>     Thanks in advance.
>     Regards,
>     Kumar
>    
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