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Re: tcsh problem in Solaris 9.3.6?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Jun 14 00:08:02 2004

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:07:32 -0400
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Ahh, must've been a stale /etc/passwd entry.  It's been fixed now.

Thanks for the warning.

-derek

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> Well, two issues here:
>
>   * Your shell is /bin/athena/tcsh according to Hesiod, but it's very
> likely /afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh which is being run in this login
> (since /bin/athena/tcsh is not linked against libucb).  So you may have
> a stale passwd entry on the machine.
>
>   * /afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh appears broken under Solaris on 9.3
> because it uses libucb but does not have /usr/ucblib in its rpath. 
> Prior to 9.3, we had a symlink in /usr/lib/libucb.so.1, but no longer. 
> (This is the first report I've seen of any software breaking as a
> result, and sipb tcsh is sufficiently ghetto that it's not a very
> interesting report.)
>
>
>

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