[6352] in RedHat Linux List
Problem with csh 5.2.6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile)
Tue Nov 26 22:26:11 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:25:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@patriot.net>
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cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
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We have a user who's experiencing difficulties with the BSD C shell
(5.2.6) shipped with Red Hat Linux 3.0.3, running under RHL303 (with
unofficial shadow password support) and the 1.2.13 kernel. Occasionally,
the user experiences the following:
% cat .cshrc | cat # a simple example
csh: setpgid error.
Suspended (tty output)
[1] 26014 26015
% jobs
[1] - Done cat .cshrc |
Suspended (tty output) cat
% jobs
[1] - Done cat .cshrc |
Suspended (tty output) cat
Note the "setpgid error". Note that Suspend (Control-Z) was not pressed
to produce the "Suspended" message. Note that, even though "jobs"
reports the job done, the job persists.
This problem does not occur if the user uses tcsh.
The problem occurs even under a bare login shell (i.e. without any
user configuration scripts). /etc/csh.cshrc contains three "setenv"
statements to set HOSTNAME, NNTPSERVER, and PATH.
The problem does not appear to be tied to the user's account, since I
can recreate it under my own account.
Of course, the obvious solution is to tell the user to use tcsh, but
frankly, I don't think it's my job to tell my users what shells to use.
I'd rather correct this problem and allow him to use csh if he chooses to.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Anyone have a solution?
It might be worth noting that we're *not* using Red Hat's user group
convention (each user has his own group, which is the user's login group).
We use a conventional UNIX user/group scheme: every user is part of a
larger group (in our case, a group called "users").
/bin/csh is not set-UID or set-GID:
% ls -l /bin/csh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104776 Feb 25 1996 /bin/csh
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Steve Coile P a t r i o t N e t Systems Engineering
scoile@patriot.net Patriot Computer Group (703) 277-7737
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