Did you explicitly save your .cshrc as Unix text in BBedit? Mac linefeeds play havoc with shell scripts.
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:12, Birdy Complex wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem because I have two accounts: > My Staff account is the one I normally use. I installed and set up Fink > while logged in as Staff. (No, my account isn't actually named "Staff" but > call it that for now. Staff can run Fink, but can't actually do anything > because it's not on the Sudo list. > My Admin account (the main, first account) does not recognize the > command "Fink". > I've used Fink before (to install Gimp & Gnome, for example), but > I don't remember how. > > My question is, beyond the following, what should I do to make > Fink work? > > I made Fink work when I did the following: > 1) Logged in to OS X as Staff, so I opened a terminal window and > logged in to Darwin as Admin. > 2) Executed the command that's stored in the .cshrc file. (The > command is something like, "source /sw/bin/init.csh") > 3) I was then able to type Fink commands and have them work from > that Terminal window. > > So I made a new .cshrc file (in BBEdit) containing that command > and put it in Admin's directory (~/Admin). However, the file's owner is > still listed as the Staff user. Maybe that's why the .cshrc file doesn't > seem to do anything; it didn't give new Terminal windows the ability to > run Fink when logged in as Admin. (If anyone wants to translate my > Newbie-ese into *nix Geek, I'd be thrilled.) > I'd have to be a superuser to use chown... > > It would be better to create the .cshrc file in Terminal using > pico, but the shell (not bash, so I guess it's the default shell) doesn't > recognize pico, vi, vim, or emacs. ?? Should I have tried "write"? :-) > Of course, I can log in as Admin and create the .cshrc file in > BBEdit with owner=Admin, but I didn't have time this morning and wanted > to know the Darwin way. > > > Sorry, that's a lot of half-asked questions, but what I really want to > know is "How do I make Fink work in my Admin account (having installed and > set up Fink in a different account)?" > > Many thanks, > complex > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future > of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community > Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
