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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: of shells and discs
- Keywords: zsh, nfs
- Message-ID: <2867@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 16:11:17 GMT
- References: <o3g7m8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Aug6.164104.26546@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <o8pbsmk@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <o8pbsmk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1992Aug6.164104.26546@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johnb@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins) writes:
- >
- >| In article <o3g7m8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >| >Hoping this isn't a joke, I answer seriously...
- >| >There is no /etc/shells file on Irix. You can create one, but
- >| >it doesn't mean anything. More than likely you have a typo
- >| >in /etc/passwd for the shell pathname. You can use system manager
- >| >for this also. An easier test is to modify the passwd file,
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- Not that this really matters much, but I did run into an IRIX login
- shell bug that had us all perplexed. If the beginning of the path
- of the login shell specified in /etc/passwd was "/bin/s" it did not
- matter what it was, /bin/sh was run. I think I was trying to run something
- called "/bin/setup"; always got /bin/sh. SGI eventually agreed this
- was the case. Last I knew, this was not fixed, but I have not looked into
- the problem for more than a year...
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