[macanada]

Does anybody know where the login script is located?

The ~/.tcsh, ~/.login and stuff like that?

Or do I have to start and create one myself?

Chad Taylor

[gorgonzola]

Moving to OS X Usage & Support. Click through to find your thread.

thanks

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i'm using .tschrc in my login dir to store environment changes and aliases...i created it. read a til or somesuch to the effect. .alias woould not work properly...

[Mactoid]

OS X doesn't ship with any shell login scripts in your home directory. However, there are global login scripts that it executes. The first ones that execute are the "/etc/csh.login" and "/etc/csh".cshrc scripts. However, if you loook in those, then you will see that all they do is execute their equivalents in "/usr/share/init/tcsh/". The files there are where a bunch of stuff is done.

Those files are all global to all users, but they will also look for and run and personal login files in ~/Library/init/tcsh/" if you make them.

After all that, the "~/.cshrc" and "~/.login" files will be executed.

Does anyone know why Apple made this so complicated. What is wrong with simply having 2 files? global settings in "/etc/csh.login", personal ones in "~/.login". But whatever, that 's how it works, as far as i know.

[altoid]

I found some helpful info in the README that resides in the directory w/ all the login/environment stuff. Try

%> more /usr/share/init/tcsh/readme

I followed the instructions there and made a file called aliases.mine and completions.mine in ~/Library/init/tcsh/

If you look at the scripts in /usr/share/init/tcsh/ you can see they look for those files and execute them if they exist.

As to why Apple made it so hard.... good question.