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From: john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul)
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Subject: Re: Problems with execl("bin/csh", ...) in my OWN shell from login
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.054619.9059@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 05:46:19 GMT
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In article <12860@ucrmath.ucr.edu> yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu (matt robinson) writes:
}In article <12602@ucrmath.ucr.edu> yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu writes:
}>The problem I'm having is that I need to start up a new /bin/csh from my
}>/bin/eggsh, which is designed to keep the user 'guest' out of the machine
}
}The suggestions given were to try execl("/bin/csh", "-csh", (char *)0),
}or execl("/bin/csh", "-", (char *)0), both of which do not work.

   This compiled and ran just fine for me.  DECstation 2100, Ultrix 3.1

John

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