.tcshrc is the config file for your settings on the environment variables for your session of tcsh. When your looking for $SHELL your looking for the command line interpretor. FreeBSD can use most any of them. bash, csh, ksh,, sh, tcsh, etc. Usually the .rc file is found in your home directory i.e. /home/bsmythe/.tcshrc the file usually contains things like your $PATH variable or $PROMPT. Your best bet is to type "env" (on FreeBSD at least). That should give you a list of environment variables if you like the way your command line works now then I wouldn't change too many things.
So you have a MAC. Look in your McManual to see where you set things like the type of command line prompt. Does it let you change the prompt from SHELL> to SHELL_8:00AM:\ . The file you use to set this environment variable is the file you use to set the PATH. OS X 10 is claimed to be a kissing cousin to FreeBSD so I will make that assumption. First you will get stuck. But your system is like a 4wheeldrive and these lists are the wench to drag you out of places you ought not be. So add a good helping of persistence. You can do this. I'm an ex-truck driver. Good scrappy computers can be found for less than 50$ for an IBM PC. Load it up with FreeBSD. Buy a Good FreeBSD book Like FreeBSD Unleashed by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Then just port down the Mysql rdbms. Use your Mac to administer the thing. SSH to the FreeBSD box from the Mac and get used to working roughly remote. You can do this. It's just going to take persistence on the command line. -----Original Message----- From: Lost Idols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ?? .tcshrc On OS X ?? I had tips from some people here to install the complete MySQL from Server Logistics on my Mac OS X 10.2 and so I did (I also installed Apache 2 and PHP from them). Now I'm on Step one, but got stuck here. (I always get stuck while trying this MySQL). In the pdf-file that came along with the installation it says: shell> echo $SHELL This will return the path to the shell you are using. In most cases it will return either "/bin/tcsh" (tcsh shell) or "/bin/bash" (bash shell). If you are using the tcsh shell, you will have to modify the file ".tcshrc" located within your home directory. If this file does not exist, then you will have to create a new one. After opening the file in your text editor, add the following line at the bottom of the file: setenv PATH "$PATH":/Library/MySQL/bin Save the file. But when I try to find this .tcshrc file (whisch is the one showing up when I write that line in my Terminal. I can't find it (not by using Sherlock or when looking). I guess it should be in MyComputer / Library / MySQL / bin. But it isn't. So I wrote the line they explain in the end of the text above and try to save it as .tcshrc, but my computer tells me I can't use a name with a dot in the beginning. So I tried to take that away and then drop the file from the desktop to the bin folder, but then it tells m I'm not allowed to change that folder?! What am I supposed to do??? I'm really a newbie here... and it seems I'll always be... I've tried this sooo many times the last week now. I'm about to give up soon. :-( _________________________________________________________________ Hitta rätt köpare på MSN Köp & Sälj http://www.msn.se/koposalj -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
