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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: newgrp bug (was: Is there any hope left?)
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 12:31:47 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9301020732.34@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1993Jan2.052714.28037@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan2.052714.28037@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >Oof! It's been running for 28 hours now after I gutted my machine
- >and replaced just about everything except the case.
-
- What did you end up replacing to get it working?
-
- >Anyway - has anyone noticed that newgrp ignores shell spec in
- >/etc/passwd and execs sh always? Since i have my ksh environment
- >nicely set up, that kinda screws me up and I have to manually exec ksh
- >then.
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- 1. newgrp is set up as an alias by ksh which just does an "exec newgrp".
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- 2. newgrp has /bin/sh hardwired in.
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- >Anyone has any ideas? I just tried it on the SCO box here, and it works
- >just fine (execs ksh, as I want it to).
- >
- >(To be quite honest, i would find the BSD way of not having to run
- >newgrp the best of all).
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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