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[jim bidebo]

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 ?

[jim bidebo]

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

[Animesh Chakraborty]

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

[Santosh Nair_1]

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

[jim bidebo]

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

and csh works fine...

[jim bidebo]

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

so the problem is still there...

[Robin Wakefield]

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

[jim bidebo]

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

[jim bidebo]

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

[Alex Glennie]

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

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

[jim bidebo]

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

[Alex Glennie]

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 !

[jim bidebo]

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.

[jim bidebo]

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?

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Jim,

You need to edit $HOME/.dtprofile

Rgds, Robin.

[Alex Glennie]

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 ?

[jim bidebo]

.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?

[Alex Glennie]

Phew ! ;)

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

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

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.