On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:29:09AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> The original problem was that processes kept accumulating due to some
> looping of a test in one of the subprocesses of /etc/security.  Thanks
> to the help of Jeremy Reed and Manuel Bouyer I was able to pin down the
> offending routine to "check_rootdotfiles".  I looked at /etc/security,
> but I'm afraid it is out of my league.  In case it's relevant, the shell
> for root is /bin/csh, and /root/.cshrc is the one installed by default
> (NetBSD 1.4.2/sparc).  I cut out the "bad" portion of /etc/security and
> ran it with the -x switch.  The last part of the output is appended to
> this message.  Anyone have ideas on how to debug it further?

Do you have the default .profile ?
It seems that it's looping in the subshell trying to read the PATH set in
.profile.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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