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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!steam.chem.su.oz.au!wonga
  3. From: wonga@steam.chem.su.oz.au (Adrian Wong)
  4. Subject: Strange login behaviour
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep10.060521.7317@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
  6. Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: steam.chem.su.oz.au
  8. Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sydney
  9. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
  10. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:05:21 GMT
  11. Lines: 18
  12.  
  13. We have recently upgraded to 10.4 and OCCASIONALLY when we login
  14. the shell is not able to exec anything (except built-in shell commands).
  15. Thus 'cd' works but 'ls' fails with the error message 
  16.  
  17. 'ls : Command not found.'
  18.  
  19. Even '/bin/ls' fails.
  20. However subshells do work, e.g.
  21. '(cd /bin ; ./ls )'
  22. works fine.
  23.  
  24. What's happened? I suspect it's specifically a C-shell problem, because
  25. when I use Korn shell it's never occurred.
  26.  
  27.  
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  29. Adrian Wong, Dept.of Theoretical Chemistry     wong_a@summer.chem.su.oz.au
  30. University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia        061-2-692 4137
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