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.