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Subject: rsh - now problems under openwin.
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Date: 1 Apr 91 15:49:38 GMT
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	I recently posted a question about rsh:
	why does my rsh not work manually or in a program?

	Thanks so Very Much to the four or five people who replied, 
	you know who you are and you helped. Here is a summary.

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Presumably you're setting your $path in the .login file - 'rsh host cmd'
doesn't do a login on the remote system; you need to set $path in .cshrc
(or give a full pathname for th cmd, of course) - if you have /bin/sh or
equivalent (rather than /bin/csh or equivalent) as login shell .cshrc
will of course not be of any help...

As to fixing the path problem, there are several solutions:

1)  Set your path in .cshrc instead of .login (or both).

2)    Set your path in .envrc, which is called from .login and/or .cshrc;
      something like this:

=== .envrc ===
setenv ENVSET
set path=( . /usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin .....whatever.... )
setenv PRINTER myfavoriteprinter
   ...
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And add this to both your .login and .cshrc:
   if ( ! $?ENVSET ) source .envrc

(or something similar)

I have used both solutions 1 & 2.  SunOS is distributed with files in
/usr/lib/{Login,Cshrc} that use solution #1.

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