I have a very simple modulefile: #%Module1.0##################################################################### puts stderr Loading personal environment proc ModulesHelp

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I have a very simple modulefile: #%Module1.0##################################################################### puts stderr Loading personal environment proc ModulesHelp

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I have a very simple modulefile:

#%Module1.0#####################################################################
puts stderr "Loading personal environment"
proc ModulesHelp { } {
    puts stderr "\tLoads personal environment"
    puts stderr ""
}
setenv MYTEMPVAR sometext

And here is my command line:

> env | grep MYTEMPVAR
> module load ~/wa/example_modulefile
Loading personal environment
> env | grep MYTEMPVAR
MYTEMPVAR=sometext
> module unload ~/wa/example_modulefile
> env | grep MYTEMPVAR
MYTEMPVAR=sometext

According to the modulefile man page unload module command was supposed to turn all setenv’s to unsetenv but it doesn’t seem to be working. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong here?

More information:

> module --version
VERSION=3.2.6
DATE=2007-02-14

AUTOLOADPATH=undef
BASEPREFIX="/usr/share"
BEGINENV=99
CACHE_AVAIL=undef
DEF_COLLATE_BY_NUMBER=undef
DOT_EXT=""
EVAL_ALIAS=1
HAS_BOURNE_FUNCS=1
HAS_BOURNE_ALIAS=1
HAS_TCLXLIBS=undef
HAS_X11LIBS=1
LMSPLIT_SIZE=undef
MODULEPATH="/company/tech/tools/modules/sites/$SITE/Linux/:/company/tech/tools/modules/projects"
MODULES_INIT_DIR="/usr/share/Modules/init"
PREFIX="/usr/share/Modules"
TCL_VERSION="8.4"
TCL_PATCH_LEVEL="8.4.19"
TMP_DIR="/tmp"
USE_FREE=undef
VERSION_MAGIC=1
VERSIONPATH=undef
WANTS_VERSIONING=0
WITH_DEBUG_INFO=undef

Hello World

> env | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/tcsh

For those unfamiliar with modulefiles (they do not seem to be that popular):

modulefile is a simple bit of code that set or add entries to the PATH, MANPATH, or other environment variables
modulefiles hide the notion of different types of shells
modulefiles are written in the Tool Command Language, Tcl and are interpreted by the modulecmd program via the module user interface