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From: czech@gmdzi.gmd.de (Richard Czech)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Re: Error in SunOS4.1.1 /etc/rc
Keywords: su, uucp, /etc/rc, Sun
Message-ID: <4157@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 27 Feb 91 08:28:16 GMT
References: <4132@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991Feb25.201609.26138@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <1991Feb25.201609.26138@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>,
dean@fyvie.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Luick) writes:
|>In article <4132@gmdzi.gmd.de> czech@gmdzi.gmd.de writes:
|>>              I get an error message:
|>>
|>> su: illegal option -- c
|>> 	usage: uucico [-xNUM] [-r[0|1]] -sSYSTEM -uUSERID -dSPOOL -iINTERFACE
|>
|>The program su starts the shell program for uucp (from /etc/passwd)
|>and hands it the "-c <command>" as an argument.  Unfortunately, the "shell"
|>for uucp is uucico, not the expected "regular" shell, like sh, csh, etc.
|>Consequently, uucico fails with the above error message.

Thank you all for the replies and mails. The problem was a wrong entry
in /etc/passwd which defined uucico as the login shell for the uucp
account.                       
   regards
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