On Mon, 10 May 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote: > I would think that you really want to be using .login for your 'exec zsh' > rather than .tcshrc. This seems to be the type of user error (code in .tcshrc > which actually belongs in .login) which we can not easily deal with in an I agree with that. Putting setenv SHELL /bin/zsh exec /bin/zsh In .login is the best way. This starts the desired shell and also has the desirable effect that the system starts /bin/zsh whenever it needs a new shell. This solution avoids problems with Autoconf. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen