| Subject: (3.12) /usr/local/etc/rc.news: (M-i)^P^L^A.Gd: not found |
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Q: rc.news reports "/usr/local/etc/rc.news: (M-i)^P^L^A.Gd: not found" A: Bob Izenberg <bei@io.com> reports: Here's an unlikely possibility that bit us once. In an almost all-Sun environment, I requested and got /bin/ksh as my shell. When I logged in, I got a burst of control characters and a closed connection after a few seconds. It turned out that ksh followed about fifteen symbolic links to a file that had been moved/removed. Therefore, make sure that the first line in rc.news refers to a shell that really exists. If you run "sh /usr/local/etc/rc.news" make sure you don't have anything else named "sh" in your path. (And if you have something named "sh" in your path that isn't a Bourne Shell or a clone, worry!) ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |
