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From: jdubb@bucsf.bu.edu (jay dubb)
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Subject: using tcsh as login shell: problems with DecWindows
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Date: 13 Mar 91 01:21:58 GMT
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   I am posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have access
to USENET, so please respond directly to mlevin@jade.tufts.edu.

   I have a Vaxstation II/RC running Ultrix 4.1.  Putting tcsh (via
the chsh command) as one's login shell prevents logins - when you
enter your username and password at the DIGITAL prompt, the screen
clear, and then instead of running the windows manager and all that
stuff, it goes back to the login: prompt. I have been told that it is
because the Windows stuff doesn't tell tcsh whether it is being run
interactively or not, and it tries to do terminal stuff when there is
no terminal for it. Is anyone out there using tcsh as their login
shell with DecWindows? If so, how do you get around the above problem?


			Mike Levin (mlevin@jade.tuft.edu)