Re: Problem with csh
On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 01:18:08PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>>>> comp@AbNormal:~$ csh
>>>> Bad : modifier in $ '/'.
On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 03:31:12PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
>> Quick Google search shows it is an issue with the syntax of defining
>> environment variables:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40968061/bad-modifier-in
* Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> [22-07/02=Sa 15:41 -0400]:
> That still requires some command to have been executed. Since Stephen
> didn't even run a command yet, that means he has to have created a
> bogus dot file (e.g. ~/.cshrc) containing the invalid csh command.
There could be an error in a system-wide init file. He
says this is a fresh Bullseye, but not that he's the
sysadmin who set it up, and he's in an academic environment.
On a Manjaro system that I don't administer I saw the line
set -r autologout 86400
which should be
set -r autologout = 86400
and after the sysadmin fixed it, a Manjaro update broke it again.
Because csh gets little use nowadays, it's possible there's
something wrong in Debian's init files too (not the set -r error
though, because that gives a different error message), though I
assume that whatever is wrong would need to be on a code path
not followed for most testing. That seems plausible, since the
behavior of startup files could depend on hardware configuration.
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