I guess this question would be better fit for sysadminmonks.org, but here we go anyway... :)

I am setting up a machine that will contain a general profile for a specific group of users. Whenever a user in that group logs on via telnet or on console, the profile is executed containing a perl script that goes through specific tasks per user, but I'm not worried about that yet. There's another smaller issue that's bothering me.

At the end of the script, I'm trying to chdir and have the user stay at that directory, but the common shell behavior won't set the user's cwd to that directory. Instead, he starts off at his/her home directory. In other words:
foo:~ # pwd
/home/foo
foo:~ # perl -e "chdir('/bar');"
foo:~ # pwd
/home/foo

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Q: Does anyone know how to avoid / work around this shell behavior?

Thans in advance.

In reply to chdir vs. shell behavior by BBQ

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