[2308] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: /bin/athena/tcsh doesn't do Hesiod-based tilde expansion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Nov 16 12:42:00 1998
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 1998 12:41:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Nathan J. Williams"'s message of Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:18:01 EST
If you look closely, you will notice that /bin/athena/tcsh is a symlink
to /bin/tcsh... We should fix this (since we _do_ build Athena tcsh)
-derek
"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> Yet Another bug report from snork.
>
> Running /bin/athena/tcsh, commands like "cd ~sipbtest" fail:
>
> 1 snorklewacker:nathanw>cd ~sipbtest
> Unknown user: sipbtest.
>
> On all other current Athena machines, running that command
> while sipbtest was not in the local passwd database would put me in
> /afs/athena/user/s/i/sipbtest, via Hesiod lookup of the home directory
> for sipbtest. That Linux isn't doing this is a bug.
>
> - Nathan
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