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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: <2874@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:47:34 GMT
- References: <o8pbsmk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <2867@contex.contex.com> <oisgk8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <oisgk8c@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >| 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...
- >
- >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.
- >--
- This was? an old bug. If you say its fixed, then it likely is. As I
- clearly said, I have not looked at it for more than a year, and it
- does not really matter much. More of an anecdote. It certainly was
- perplexing...
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