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Date:      Tue, 27 May 1997 03:22:15 -0600 (MDT)
From:      nirva@ishiboo.com
To:        msmith@revolution.3-cities.com (Mark D Smith)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rsh/ksh problems
Message-ID:  <19970527092216.9143.qmail@dot.ishiboo.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705270745.AAA16276@revolution.3-cities.com> from "Mark D Smith" at May 27, 97 00:45:04 am

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> From: Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
> Subject: rsh/ksh problems
> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm having a nasty problem that I can't quite track down.
> 
> I have the .rhosts file properly created.
> 
> when i say "rsh machine2 ls" I get the output from ls.  OK, fine.  Now
> I say "rsh machine2 rmt" and it says ksh: rmt: not found.  Hmm,
> now I say "rsh machine2 set" and I get the path as being 
> PATH='/usr/bin:/bin'.  For some reason, the remote ksh is not picking
> up the path in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile.  Am I doing something
> wrong here?  How do I get the remote ksh to pick up the path that I 
> need?

Your .profile doesn't get read when you run a shell through rsh
because the shell isn't started as a login shell. You need to set the
PATH in the non-login rc file... I'm not sure what it is for ksk.

> thanks
> 
> Mark
> 

-- 
Neal Fachan         kneel@ishiboo.com



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