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From: dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: rlogin not switching to user's home directory
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Date: 2 Aug 88 14:47:52 GMT
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Geof Cooper says:
> I just tried it.  Setting the last field of /etc/passwd to
> /bin/start_csh, /bsd4.2/bin/start_csh both end up with the bourne shell
> getting executed.  DN3000 running 9.7.1.

I use /bin/csh in the shell field and it works fine.

> BTW, to make rexec work, you have to link /bin to /bsd4.2/bin.  If it
> is linked to the usual $(systype)/bin, you can't actually do RCP or
> RSH.

I haven't written any programs that use the rexec() call directly,
but the usual link through SYSTYPE works for rsh, as in

   cat file | rsh apollohost sort | crpad

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
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