tcsh problem !!!

[Venky_1]

Hi ,

We have tcsh installed on HP-UX 11i server.
Lately, we are observing problems due to this shell and login for any account takes few minutes.

Any account having sh/ ksh/ csh as its shell works fine.

Any suggestions.

Venky

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Venky,

Since you're not seeing the problem on other shells, you can probably rule out the /etc/profile file.
Take a look at an affected user ~/.login & ~/.cshrc files for problems.
One that comes to my mind is any who -R statements in there that cause hostname lookups of systems (workstations) that aren't in DNS. The time could be from multiple lookup failures - approx 30 seconds each. So you can see what 8 hosts w/no DNS can do to login times.

HTH,
Jeff

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

What version of tcsh did you install, and does the architecture of the build match?

A recent version is available on https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ or http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ Please *do* read my comments:

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The tcsh ports here have small modifications from me: default is 'vi' instead of that horrible 'emacs', '.' first in $PATH is enabled - be sure to disable that in your personal settings, a =- hack enables '=-' to use it for "previous dir" everywhere in the commandline, so I can do less =-/xyzz for completion of files in the previous folder.
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The 11.00 version runs fine on 11.11. I have no problems whatsoever.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn