Re: [SLE] Shell Permissions as User

From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. (s.molnar_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 05/18/05

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 08:22:07 -0400

    Many thanks for your reply. That was it. I had made an entry in .cshrc that
    was the culprit. I wasn't really losing what few marbles I have left.

    All is now well!!!

    On Wednesday May 18, 2005 08:03 am, Ti Kan wrote:
    > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. writes:
    > > Now I am really confused. I am accustomed to being able to change from
    > > the login shell, which in the case of my 9.3 installation is the bash
    > > shell, to the C shell by entering csh in a terminal.
    > >
    > > Suddenly, if I try that I get an error message:
    > >
    > > computation@abnormal:~/CompChem/nwchem-4.7> csh
    > > /usr/bin/.: Permission denied.
    >
    > Seems something in your .cshrc or another csh startup script is using
    > the Bourne/Bash shell syntax ". somefile" to "source" another file.
    > Csh doesn't understand that syntax, and tries to execute a program
    > called ".", and /usr/bin happens to be the first directory in its PATH,
    > and you can't execute /usr/bin/. (which is a directory).
    >
    > -Ti
    > --
    > Ti Kan
    > http://www.amb.org/ti
    > Vorsprung durch Technik 

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Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.				               Life is a fuzzy set
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