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From: kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de (Jelske Kloppenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: shells and 2.0 rlogind
Message-ID: <4508@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 11 Apr 91 09:57:55 GMT
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haustin@cs.tamu.edu (Harold E Austin Jr.) writes:

>Here's an interesting problem ...

>It seems that no one with a default shell other than /bin/sh or /bin/csh can
>rlogin to a machine running 2.0.  

>...

>Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

If I rlogin to my NeXT 2.0 with default shell /bin/ksh, I succeed, but
if I then make ps, I have no process. If I make ps -x, I find my process
with tty ?. The problem seeems to be, that sh and csh ar waiting for
the information, what the controlling terminal is. (Bad English? excuse me!)

  Jelske Kloppenburg, kloppen@gmdzi.gmd.de, (++49 2241) 14-2433
  German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)