Hi,
I am using Linux RH 6.0, emacs 20.4 and
rcp.el, v 1.213 1999/11/21 17:37:20 kai Exp
I did not see this on the list of known problems...
With rcp using scp mode to connect from Linux to an IRIX 6.5 machine,
the /bin/sh-shell spawning mechanism is invoked because IRIX does not
pass the ~root expansion test for my default shell (tcsh), nor for
ksh, and this IRIX does not have bash installed.
The problem is that the ksh (which fails the ~root expansion test)
seems to hang around and is never killed. Thus I always have an extra
/bin/ksh process running on the remote machine. This seems somewhat
wasteful.
Here are the results of the ~root expansion test:
/home/ess/zender/zender/ccm: ksh
$ echo ~root
/
$ exit
/home/ess/zender/zender/ccm: tcsh
/home/ess/zender/zender/ccm: echo ~root
/
/home/ess/zender/zender/ccm: exit
exit
/home/ess/zender/zender/ccm: sh
$ echo ~root
~root
$ exit
Here is my process table, showing a ksh started by rcp weeks ago
which is never being used for anything:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
zender 987780 30189 0 17:42:46 pts/3 0:00 ps -f -U zender
zender 97640 97658 0 Dec 03 ? 0:00 tcsh -c /bin/sh
zender 97698 97640 0 Dec 03 ? 0:03 /bin/ksh
zender 30189 30187 0 Dec 02 pts/3 0:06 -tcsh
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Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
