tcsh & telnet

[Linda Foster]

In article <23156 at adm.BRL.MIL> MATHRICH at umcvmb.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel UMC Math Department) writes:
>I just installed tcsh version 5.18 on our sun 4/110 running Sunos 4.0.3.
>It works fine when I login on a local terminal, but when I telnet in
>from a VM/CMS host, it logs me out immediately after running my .login
>script.  Since my .login does an unset autologout, and no 'autologout'
>message from tcsh appears before being logged out, I don't
>think the problem lies with that feature.
>Tcsh does complain about my terminal type (ibm-3278-2) and says it's using
>the settings for a dumb terminal.  No other messages or symptoms appear.
>I'm stumped (that's no surprise!) ... does anyone have any ideas?

The behavior you describe sounds like a possible result of not having
tcsh in the list of valid shells (in /etc/shells).

In fact, /etc/shells may not even exist if you haven't had any users
using anything but sh and csh, so it would need to be created.  

			*linda*

Linda Foster
foster at oac.uci.edu