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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Are there pty bugs in /bin/sh5?
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.92Jul29190402@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 00:04:02 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- We're a previously all-Sun site installing our first three Ultrix
- machines, for background.
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- We have a DS5000/20 with 40 megs ram, a 400-meg internal disk and
- a 1.3G external SCSI, which will be our Ultrix server soon. We have
- Ultrix 4.2 and the DEC is connected via ethernet to our Suns.
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- We had some very strange pty problems which finally disappeared when we
- made /bin/sh be the same as /bin/sh5 instead of /bin/sh7. The most
- frustrating was that noone whose shell was csh (DEC's version) or tcsh
- (net version) could log in except at the console. No telnet, rsh, or
- terminal server logins would work!
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- We can duplicate this by swapping the two shells. What does "sh" have
- to do with "csh," anyway???? Shouldn't they be independant?
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- Has anyone else run into this? Is there something we can do to use
- /bin/sh5? The System 7 version is really brain-damaged, according to
- our systems programmers.
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- Thanks, Betsy
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- PS Has anyone ever seen a doc on how Ultrix differs from Sun OS or
- BSD? A friend swears he saw one but can't remember where...
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