Unexpected messages when using ssh and rlogin

[Tony Rossomano_2]

Hello, I'm getting some strange messages when using ssh and rlogin to remote login into our server. We have a simple network setup right now, with a Compaq Proliant Server running RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 and a few Compaq workstations running RedHat 8.0. We are using NIS to share user and host name information with the workstations(the only user created on the workstations is root, all other users are created on the server). When we use rlogin or ssh to remote login into the server(using a user other than root), we get these messages:

root: command not found
root: Undefined variable

The remote login works fine, but we have these messages.
I also have a question about user environments. When we remote login via ssh or rlogin does the user's environment get setup? i.e. does the .cshrc get executed? For example, our users use the c-shell. So, when we remote login, should we have history and all the other common features of the shell environment? Oh, and could those messages have anything to do with the fact that rlogin and ssh are suid root?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to get rid of those messages!!

Thanks,

Tony