topic Re: login in Operating System - HP-UX

login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:14:01 GMT

Having some problems with one of our 10.20 workstations... running NIS.

have checked so it loads the /etc/profile but after that it hangs...
what hapens after loading of the /etc/profile ?

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:16:31 GMT

can add that the same problem ocur while running su - to a user... and not with "su user"...

Re: login

Animesh Chakraborty — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:29:02 GMT

Hi,
See the passwd file for shell.It should look like this.
ac:*:3010:3000:Animesh,,,:/home/ac:/usr/bin/ksh
Another guess, Do you have diskquota enabled ?

Best of luck
Animesh

Re: login

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:30:44 GMT

Jim,

I've seen this sort of problem when ksh is trying to write the user's HISTFILE to their home directory which is NFS mounted. Try modifying the HISTFILE environment variable in /etc/profile so that it points to some local filesystem, e.g. in /etc/profile add:

export HISTFILE=/tmp/.sh_history.$LOGNAME.$$

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:34:42 GMT

it worked when i redirected the histfile...
wounder why? since it worked just the other day...

and csh works fine...

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:40:13 GMT

hmm.. it worked only with telnet... not with dtlogin =(

so the problem is still there...

Re: login

Robin Wakefield — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:44:15 GMT

Hi Jim,

Immediately after running /etc/profile, it runs $HOME/.profile. I'd put comments in your .profile, and see where it's hanging.

Rgds, Robin

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:47:52 GMT

can add that dtlogin works... but when your inside its imposible to get a prompt in the dtterm windows... (unless you run csh)

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:51:30 GMT

ive got an empty .profile, so the problem isnt there...

Re: login

Alex Glennie — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:58:17 GMT

try editing /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and add LOCKD_OPTIONS="-p 4045"

reboot or restart rpc.lockd ..... result ?

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:12:51 GMT

no result by changing /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconfig and restarting rpc.lockd

Re: login

Alex Glennie — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:36:06 GMT

Well we've tried most of the obvious stuff ..... I would suggest disabling NIS to see if a local passwd file works better / & hence see i fthis is NIS related.

What O/S is your NIS master ?

Also things to look into .... are hpterm or xterm failing too .... I suspect they are.

ensure you have the latest CDE and NIS patches installed.

I've also seen cases where this disappears as mysteriously as it appeared - no explanation found so loathe as I am to say it have you tried a reboot ?

Good luck !

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:49:58 GMT

NIS/NFS server running hp-ux 10.20

have tried both hpterm and xterm.. no result.

the problem occured after i upgraded the mashine with another 256MB ram, and i changed /etc/rc.config.d/LANG so it used sv_SE.iso88591 instead of C..
ive changed back to default now, whitout any result.

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:36:48 GMT

but since it works when running telnet or su -... (when running su -, and export DISPLAY it also works with dtterm, xterm and hpterm)
just have to make it possible to redirect .sh.history when running dtlogin aswell.. how?

Re: login

Robin Wakefield — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:44:39 GMT

Hi Jim,

You need to edit $HOME/.dtprofile

Rgds, Robin.

Re: login

Alex Glennie — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:45:48 GMT

Jim, if you don't mind trying a few more things out ....

from cmd line ( not CDE) vi $HOME/.Xdefaults : add :

dtterm*loginShell:True

wq!

login to CDE ....... open a dtterm .....result ?

Re: login

jim bidebo — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:08:13 GMT

.Xdefaults did help...
is there a way to apply this change system wide? (like /etc/profile)

i do guess that this doesnt solve the problem but walks around it?

Re: login

Alex Glennie — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:24:47 GMT

Phew ! ;)

system wide =>add loginShell resource here =>
/etc/dt/app-defaults/C/Dtterm

Re: login

Alex Glennie — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:28:51 GMT

ps may need to copy file/dir from /usr/dt path or similar method =>

edit /usr/dt/config/C/sys.resources both methods should work.