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From: wgb@balkan.TNT.COM (William G. Bunton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ftp under ISC 2.2 TCP/IP
Keywords: ftp
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.135717.15921@balkan.TNT.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 91 13:57:17 GMT
References: <359@abhg.UUCP> <1991Feb22.002543.19414@Kesa.COM> <363@abhg.UUCP>
Organization: Tools & Techniques, Inc.
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In article <363@abhg.UUCP> misko@abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) writes:
>Great thanks go out to Don.  I had 3 entries in my /etc/shells file.
>Deleting one of them got FTP working just fine.  I can now log in as
>a regular user and use FTP.  This is a very strange bug.  And I would
>consider it a bug.  Of course maybe it's documented and I missed it.

For what it's worth, here's my /etc/shells:


#
# Let's insert some comments, to make getusershell allocate
# a bit more memory.  Maybe that will help some.
#
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/bash
/bin/ksh


And, in response to the comment, that did help.  Seems there's a
memory allocation bug in getusershell; the comment forces it to
allocate more memory, and things work fine now.
-- 
William G. Bunton              | An engineer is a man who can do for five bob
wgb@balkan.tnt.com             | what any bloody fool can do for a quid.
Tools & Techniques, Austin, TX |                        -- origin unknown