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From: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joe Orost)
Newsgroups: pe.cust.bugs
Subject: Re: shell scripts as login shells
Message-ID: <476@petsd.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 85 03:16:35 GMT
Date-Received: 22 Mar 85 17:59:30 GMT
References: <7982@brl-tgr.ARPA> <97@timeinc.UUCP> <440@down.FUN> <1166@sunybcs.UUCP> <427@lsuc.UUCP> <503@rlgvax.UUCP> <236@itm.UUCP> <556@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Followup-To: net.unix-wizards
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J.
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Summary: 

I found this on "net.unix-wizards".  Please answer this if you can.  I
looked at "login.c" and it does call "execlp".

In article <556@rlgvax.UUCP> guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>> In article <503@rlgvax.UUCP> guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>> >Sorry, that *will* work on V7 (and 4.xBSD, and Sys3, and SysV) systems,
>> >...
>> Sorry, Guy, on our Perkin-Elmer 3210 running "edition7" (used to be "unix")
>> with a few Berkleyisms (vi, more, 1K disk blocks) login *will not*
>> execute a shell script...I sure wish it would....
>
>Then you should yell at P-E; the code in the V7/S3/S5/4.xBSD/whatever "login"
>uses "execlp" to run your login shell, which will execute shell scripts
>(as long as the shell script has the execute bit set).  It's successfully
>worked with the S5 and 4.2BSD "login"s.  Either P-E broke "execlp", or they
>broke "login", or the permissions on your shell script are wrong, or the
>shell script is broken.
>-- 
>	Guy Harris
>	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy

					regards,
					joe

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