elliss@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Stew Ellis) (04/03/91)
gerry@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt) writes: >the tcsh binaries for a range of machines/operating systems, in compressed >form, are available from a number of sites via anonymous ftp - at least 3:- >> irisa.irisa.fr 131.254.2.3 NFF, TeX, iPSC2, tcsh, >> tesla.ee.cornell.edu 128.84.253.11 tcsh >> tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 128.146.8.60 GNU, tcsh, perl scripts >So if you just want to *use* tcsh get the binary, and the manual page, by >anon ftp from a site, put it in your path and use chsh to make it your default. This way you don't have to spend a lot of time patching/getting >the csh sources or take a load of crap from sys admin or whatever. >Warning - once you start using the tcsh there is no way back -): >gerry [STUFF Deleted] I am using the following one. >-rwxr-xr-x 1 christos student 155562 Dec 14 17:01 tcsh.sun4-sunos4.1.Z On a Sun 4/490,chsh complains that this is not a proper login shell. Any explanation why not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________ R.Stewart (Stew) Ellis / _______________________________/ Assoc. Prof. of Social Science / / ______ ____________ __ Dept. of Humanities & Social Science / / /___ / / ___ ___ / / / 1700 W. Third Avenue / / / / / / / / / / / / Flint, MI 48504 / /__________/ / / / / / / / / / 313-762-9765 Office /______________/ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ elliss@frith.egr.msu.edu ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE "Apple Macintosh, the closed system for people with supposedly open minds." - plagiarized from someone else on the net "How you gonna do it? OS/2 it!" - stupid IBM ad "Have you ever heard anything so half-OSsed?" - me
jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) (04/03/91)
>>>>> On 2 Apr 91 21:13:44 GMT, elliss@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Stew Ellis) said: Stew> gerry@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt) writes: [...More stuff deleted...] Stew> [STUFF Deleted] Stew> I am using the following one. >-rwxr-xr-x 1 christos student 155562 Dec 14 17:01 tcsh.sun4-sunos4.1.Z Stew> On a Sun 4/490,chsh complains that this is not a proper login shell. Any Stew> explanation why not? You need to have the full path name of the file in /etc/shells JC -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)
cca04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (P.J. Mitchell) (04/03/91)
From article <1991Apr2.211344.23204@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by elliss@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Stew Ellis):
> On a Sun 4/490,chsh complains that this is not a proper login shell. Any
You need to have tcsh put into /etc/shells so that chsh knows that it's
a bona fide shell.
Needless to say your sysadm is the person to see....
This is a security feature in SunOS 4+ I believe.
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>You need to have tcsh put into /etc/shells so that chsh knows that it's >a bona fide shell. ... >This is a security feature in SunOS 4+ I believe. It's a security feature in 4.3BSD; SunOS 4.x picked it up from there.