Many thanks to Dan Goetzman who solved the problem,
Also Derk Tegeler
Charles Ballowe
Who offered me useful advise.
Fortunately the problem was easily fixed by setting $HISTFILE to a local
directory as in the following reply from Dan:
This sounds like it might be the well known Ksh login hang. Are you
accounts defined to use the Korn shell? And if so the problem could be
having $HISTFILE set to their $HOME (that is the default) and you indicate
$HOME is a NFS filesystem. This is the condition that is needed if your Ksh
has that known bug. This is common with HP-UX clients and has been fixed
with patches. It may be in V5.1 as well???
Usually, exactly 2 Cntrl+c will break out and give you a prompt. I quick
way to verify this is set HISTFILE=/tmp/sh_history.$$ in your .profile
(redirect the shell history file to a local filesystem) and the login again.
If this turns out to be the problem, what patch kit are you up on the V5.1
systems?
I hope this helps...
______________________________________________________________________
And yes, we are on Patch Kit 3 for V5.1.
Regards,
Thomas
____________________________________________________________________
>From: Thomas Storman <tstorman_at_hotmail.com>
>To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
>Subject: Logins hang on V5.1
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:30:16 +0200
>
> We have V5.1 clusters that use NIS served accounts via an nfs mounted
>V4.0F service.
>
> When users try to logon they get the initial logon messages but logon
>does
>not complete, the logon hangs. We have found that a Cntrl+c clears the
>problem.
>
> The server is an NFS client but the problem is reproduceable on other
>non-clustered V5.1 systems set as NFS clients. I have tested with a test
>system and there is not a problem until the V5.1 system that the users are
>using is setup as an NFS client.
>
> I am a little restrained in my testing because this is a production
>environment but the problem seems fairly reproduceable. I can see nothing
>obvious.
>
> Has anyone any suggestion?
>
> Thomas Storman
>
> tstorman_at_hotmail.com
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
>
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 12:59:10 NZST