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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: tcsh
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Date: 15 Mar 91 20:29:27 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.054625.3751@cs.umn.edu> cattelan@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Russell Cattelan) writes:

>>If there's no tcsh, does anyone know if bash will work on the NeXT?

Yes, it will.

>But I would suspect your problem is with /usr/etc/rlogind (or was that 
>rpc.rlogind Whatever) and /bin/login. For some reason unless the name
>of your shell is /bin/csh the remote logins just hang. 

When I brought CWRU bash 1.07 up on a NeXTstation, I ran into this, and
found out that there are a number of bugs in /usr/etc/rlogind.  Here's
an excerpt from mail I sent to someone explaining it.

    Now that you're working on bash for NeXT, let me ask you if you've run into
    this bug under 2.0: bash, as a login shell, hangs on rlogin into the NeXT.
    But it works fine on telnet.  On rlogin, I even get no output to stdout
    from the 'tset' (or debugging 'echo's) in my startup files.

It's getting stuck in initialize_jobs ().  There is a bug in the NeXT 
/usr/etc/rlogind that causes bash to be started with the terminal still
belonging to the rlogind process, and its process group set to 0 (so
that getpgrp() returns 0).  It looks like there's a stray setpgrp(0, 0)
in the rlogind code that NeXT is not handling like 4.3 BSD.


>I tried many different things includeing cp /bin/csh /usr/local/bin/tcsh 
>and the logins would still failed.
>I also tried cp /usr/local/bin/tcsh /bin/csh and it worked
>(ie I was running tcsh but called /bin/csh)

This is probably an /etc/shells issue.

Chet
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