Well I think I graduated from newbie status today. It's been a year
since I started with Linux and I finally found and fixed my first bug.
I am easily self-impressed. Here's the deal. I was having a bad time
of starting tcsh. Kept getting "Bad : modifier in $ ($)." So I kept
putting printf statements in the /etc/csh.cshrc until I found the line
generating the error. I did a printf of the $s in the following
conditional from the csh.cshrc:
########## begin #####################
# source extensions for special packages
#
if ( -d /etc/profile.d ) then
set _tmp=${?nonomatch}
set nonomatch
foreach s ( /etc/profile.d/*.csh )
if ( -r $s ) then
source $s
endif
end
if ( ! ${_tmp} ) unset nonomatch
endif
############ end #####################
This indicated I should look in /etc/profile.d/informix.csh . This file
did not have the '{','}'s you see in the text below. I also commented
out the export line. As far as I know that isn't needed in (t)csh. Is
that correct?
#
# variables for informix se to be sourced by /etc/profile
#
setenv INFORMIXDIR "/usr/lib/informix"
setenv INFORMIXSERVER "demo_se"
setenv DBPATH "$INFORMIXDIR/"
setenv PATH "${PATH}:${INFORMIXDIR}/bin"
# export INFORMIXDIR INFORMIXSERVER DBPATH PATH
It fixed the problem. Boy I'm proud of me. Now if I could just get vi
to produce a "hello world" text file :-/
Steve
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