Re: tcsh should be removed from hamm
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 12:25:49AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> > One of the sysadmins here (UofA Physics) went out on a bit of a
> > limb to convince his boss to install Debian in the linux lab and on all
> > new deparment linux machines (which are going into offices in increasing
> > numbers) Everyone here is used to tcsh, so that's the default shell. The
> > 'top's on all the machines in the linux labs usually have two or three
> > runaway tcsh's each.
> > It seems this is somewhat more severe than 'normal' . Doesn't
> > this warrant it's being removed from hamm ? (note the bug report is 95
> > days old)
> Strange. It's the default shell on the Solaris box at uni (and has
> been for years) and I don't think this has ever caused much of a problem.
> Actually, we have a newer version there than on Debian, because our
> system admin has added some new features -- but these have been
> contributed upstream too I'm told, so ours may be out of date.
> I run it as my shell on all my accounts and I've never noticed this.
I've noticed it on Linux boxes but not on Solaris.
It has something to do with dead/stale connections, but it hasn't
happened frequently enough for me to nail it down.
Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu
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