[Bug 253758] Correct name of ~/.login in handbook

[Ceri Davies]

Hmm, but csh doesn’t read a file called ~/.csh.login, it reads ~/.login - that’s nothing to do with login_conf, it’s a [t]csh specific file.

Will have a look at the git thingy.

Ceri 

> On 22 Feb 2021, at 18:25, bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253758
> 
> Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup at freebsd.org> changed:
> 
>           What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Status|Open                        |Closed
>         Resolution|---                         |Not A Bug
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup at freebsd.org> ---
> Upon closer inspection, this isn't a bug.
> 
> The section deals with csh-specific syntax for setting environment variables
> when csh is started.
> The files ~/login_conf.db or /etc/login.conf.db apply environment variables to
> more than the shell and system-wide, respectively, are both shell-independent.
> 
> If you want to fix this, I would recommend rewriting this to instruct people to
> modify /etc/login.conf and use cap_mkdb(1) to regenerate the database, so
> you're welcome to submit that as a new report.
> 
> It'd also help me immensely if you use `git format-patch`, as that retains a
> bunch of metadata, including authorship so I don't have to remember to include
> that. ;)
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