Bug 115376
| Summary: | /etc/csh.cshrc does not specify MAIL env var, as does /etc/profile | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Scott R. Godin <rhbugzilla> |
| Component: | setup | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | cra, rvokal |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-05 03:18:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Added in 2.5.32-1 The line that was added is Bourne shell syntax, not C Shell syntax: MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER I see the syntax error on login with tcsh: MAIL=/var/spool/mail/cra: Command not found. This needs to be changed to: setenv MAIL "/var/spool/mail/$USER" as suggested above. Fixing for 2.5.33-1. |
Description of problem: /etc/csh.cshrc does not specify the value of the MAIL environment variable, as does /etc/profile for bash Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): setup-2.5.27-1.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fedora core 2. set your shell to tcsh instead of bash 3. fire up xterm, type env | grep -i mail Actual results: .. notice the absence of MAIL Expected results: MAIL = /var/spool/mail/$USER Additional info: adding the line setenv MAIL "/var/spool/mail/$USER" to /etc/csh.cshrc solves the problem. This should be accomplished before the next Fedora Core release, due to the simplicity of the change.