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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: of shells and discs
- Keywords: zsh, nfs
- Message-ID: <oisgk8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:55:04 GMT
- References: <o3g7m8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Aug6.164104.26546@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <o8pbsmk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <2867@contex.contex.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <2867@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:
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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,
- |
- | 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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- I've never seen or heard of this. Was this through xdm, pandora, rsh,
- a terminal, or what? I just tried it for rsh, and it works fine.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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