Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decvax.dec.com!deccrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!brister From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Does your /usr/bin/csh grow and die under Ultrix 3.1C? Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 90 15:55:05 GMT References: <9009131437.AA17137@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: root@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca's message of 13 Sep 90 14:37:16 GMT X-Checksum-Snefru: 53c2306c 0b42e19d c5280c98 30b33ac7 On 13 Sep 90 14:37:16 GMT, root@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) said: > Every now and then someone's csh loops, eats all the memory on the machine, > and dies. This most often happens when logging in, when the .cshrc/.login > is being processed. Anyone else seen this? DS5400, Ultrix 3.1C. Check for echoing of control characters in your .login and/or .cshrc. I made an aliases that echoed a control character string to set the window title. When I ran the aliases csh did just what you described. James -- James Brister brister@decwrl.dec.com DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, California. .....!decwrl!brister