Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!neifert
From: neifert@pws.bull.com (Bill Neifert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX rshd: Bad Hertz Value
Message-ID: <15951@know.pws.bull.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 13:41:22 GMT
References: <8574@statware.UUCP>
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Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems, Inc.
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scf@statware.UUCP (Steve Fullerton) writes:

>We recently installed a system with SCO UNIX onto our network and everytime
>a remote command is attempted on this system from another on the net, get
>get this message:

>Bad Hertz Value
>Using 100 from <sys/param.h>

>I have RTFM, searched for this message using strings(1), and still cannot
>find out where it comes from, how to fix it, or how to stop it.  The release
>of SCO TCP/IP is 1.1.1b and uname reports my system is release 3.2 version 2.

>If anyone has encountered this and can assist, I would appreciate it.  Thanks.

This is a known problem and is discussed in the ODT release notes.  The problem
stems from the target user having the C-shell as the default login shell.  
Changing the default login shell makes the problem disappear.