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From: bamford@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (harold.e.bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: cd to Filecabinet at login
Keywords: error on cd
Message-ID: <1116@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 19:18:04 GMT
References: <1128@adds.newyork.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: bamford@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (harold.e.bamford,ihp,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1128@adds.newyork.NCR.COM> tanya@adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz) writes:
>
>When I login to the Unix-PC somewhere in the login process
>there is a cd to /u/$LOGNAME/Filecabinet.

>If the user doesn't have a Filecabinet, as some users do not (uucpadm
>for instance) the error message:

>cannot cd to /usr/$LOGNAME/Filecabinet

>whips by.

>I think I tracked this down to the login process.  But does anyone
>know if we can turn off this attempt to cd to a non-existent directory??

I suspect that it is in the UA (User Agent) program, rather than in
login.  If you are not using UA (as seems likely), then don't call
UA from your .profile.

-- Harold Bamford