Problem with long shell paths
Phil Dykstra
phil at BRL.MIL
Fri Sep 1 06:00:10 AEST 1989
Hi,
We were having problems on the 4D's selecting a login shell with
a long pathname. E.g. /usr/brl/bin/tcsh, or /usr/brl/bin/tbsh,
when used as a login shell out of /etc/passwd would cause some
PostScript garbage to be displayed in the console window. All
new windows (shells) would immediately exist.
I found that copying these shells to /bin fixed this problem.
Perhaps there is something in the 4Sight startup proceedure that
is overrunning a $SHELL path buffer?? I know this problem exists
in at least 3.1C and 3.1G.
- Phil
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