D. Allen [CGL]) (09/13/90)
Every now and then someone's csh loops, eats all the memory on the machine, and dies. This most often happens when logging in, when the .cshrc/.login is being processed. Anyone else seen this? DS5400, Ultrix 3.1C.
brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) (09/13/90)
On 13 Sep 90 14:37:16 GMT, root@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) said: > Every now and then someone's csh loops, eats all the memory on the machine, > and dies. This most often happens when logging in, when the .cshrc/.login > is being processed. Anyone else seen this? DS5400, Ultrix 3.1C. Check for echoing of control characters in your .login and/or .cshrc. I made an aliases that echoed a control character string to set the window title. When I ran the aliases csh did just what you described. James -- James Brister brister@decwrl.dec.com DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, California. .....!decwrl!brister
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (09/14/90)
In article <9009131437.AA17137@watcgl.waterloo.edu> root@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes: > Every now and then someone's csh loops, eats all the memory on the machine, > and dies. This most often happens when logging in, when the .cshrc/.login > is being processed. Anyone else seen this? DS5400, Ultrix 3.1C. The csh distributed with 3.1C is more or less what used to be /usr/new/csh, but with some bugs added that evoke the behavoir that you describe. There are patches available for 3.1C that replace this csh with a more traditional one, which you should install. If you've already received the 4.0 distribution, but haven't installed it yet, another alternative is to extract the 4.0 csh, which seems to work just fine under 3.1C... Likewise you can install one from one of the older risc ultrix/uws releases if you don't care about command recall, etc. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)