tcsh and login aborts?

[curtas]

I'm running Red Hat 7.0 and have a user who uses tcsh. Whenever he logs in from the graphical login screen, it immediately aborts and goes back to the graphical login screen.

I'm running gnome, and I can login both as root and with my user account (both bash). Also, the tcsh users can login from the text screen without any problems (and with no error messages).

Any reason why this machine is discriminating against tsch?

Thanks,
AC

[curtas]

I think I fixed it. The Absoft compiler was trying to set a variable MANPATH and retain the old settings. So far, in csh, it is the only script to set it, so when it tried to append $MANPATH, there was an error and the script aborted. None of the paths were properly set, and the users could not find the /var/X11R6/bin directory.

This is what was causing the login aborts.

So, moral of the story: tcsh aborts scripts on errors, which can cause path problems.

AC