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Re: zsh and login shells.

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From: "Larry P . Schrof" <schrof@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: zsh and login shells.
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:12:47 -0600
In-reply-to: <990212231454.ZM14202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Bart Schaefer on Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 11:14:54PM -0800
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> Zsh would only process .login if it were explicitly sourced.  The usual
> file for zsh is .zlogin ...

I was being dumb - I put into my .zprofile and everything was fine.

> I'm not sure the "not a link" test is all that useful.  If somebody could
> put a link in his loc/bin directory, they could also replace the entire
> executable.

The reason that I personally wouldn't use the link test is that I have
a link called -zsh pointing to the zsh binary in my home directory
software tree.  That way I can exec zsh and it shows up in the process
table as -zsh

- Larry (Thanks for the help)

References:
- zsh and login shells.
  - From: Larry P . Schrof
- Re: zsh and login shells.
  - From: Timothy J Luoma
- Re: zsh and login shells.
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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