please tell me why I getting Variable syntax while using .csh

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

login as: testuser
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Last login: Tue Oct 18 00:42:48 2011 from 43.68.26.11
Variable syntax

hpux_test_server% ls -la

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser max 1024 Oct 17 23:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Oct 17 22:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 testuser max 32 Oct 18 00:44 .cshrc

if use other shell , sh or bash...

# su - testuser

-bash-3.00$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser max 1024 Oct 17 23:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Oct 17 22:47 ..
-rw------- 1 testuser max124 Oct 18 00:44 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 testuser max 32 Oct 18 00:44 .cshrc
-bash-3.00$

[Pete Randall]

Probably one of the login profile entries that gets invoked when logging in with csh (why in heaven's name would you use csh???).  Take a look at .cshrc to start with.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

It would appear that the syntax of your login files --- '.cshrc' and '.login' in your HOME directory.  Look at '/etc/csh.login' too.

The C-shell is considered to be hopelessly broken.  Shells like 'tcsh' are said to correct many of the the deficiencies. If you want to understand why the C-shell is an abomination, read this classic:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Regards!

...JRF...