From: Flemming Videbaek (videbaek@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 18:14:34 EDT
An issue has come up at RCF namely that the efault .chsrc .profile etc files are no good for almost anyone. If we can agree on a 'simple' such script these can become deafult for new users? If you think this is a good idea please circulate suggestions. It is a requirement IMHO that they are simple i.e. no extra stuff you personly like and secondly they will allow users to use the default brahms software reight away w/o changing the files. ------------------------------------------------------ Flemming Videbaek Physics Department Brookhaven National Laboratory tlf: 631-344-4106 fax 631-344-1334 e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morris Strongson" <mms@bnl.gov> To: <liaisons@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov>; "RCF Staff" <rcfstaff@bnl.gov> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:38 PM Subject: What to do about dot files? | We currently give a .cshrc file to all new RCF users that is kind of | Solaris-like, and likely to please very few. | | The only exception we have is Star, who gave us their own dot files | a few years ago. | | In ticket 9148, Marguerite Tonjes indicates that | | "standard .cshrc for new users & .login over-writes PATH" | | and that | | "I find that in their .cshrc, they over-write the path, by not doing set | path = | ($path ) in their commands. I then found that 90% of our users do | this, and | it's because it's part of the original .cshrc that they come with! | This means | that a large percentage of RCF users are not getting any automatic | PATH | settings as they are over-written. For this one user, it meant that | their K5 | password did not make a K5 ticket, and that they couldn't make one." | | We are open to suggestions. If each collaboration would point us to | an acceptible file, we could have a .cshrc that checks the group and | creates the path from the file. This is just one idea. | | Feedback welcome. | | -- | ************************************************************************** | Morris Strongson, RHIC, USAtlas Projects Telephone: (631)344-4192 | Information Technology Division (fka CCD) Facsimile: (631)344-7688 | Brookhaven National Laboratory Internet: mms@bnl.gov | Building 515, Upton, NY 11973-5000 WWW: http://www.ccd.bnl.gov/ | ************************************************************************** | | |
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