Problem of login shell???

[BVT]

Hi all,

When i telnet to my solaris box from my linux box. After entering login name the password, I got an error message:

login:
passwd:
Last login: Mon Apr 9 18:49:22 from pinball.devo
/usr/local/bin/bash: Syntax error at line 1: '(' unexpected
Connection closed by foreign host.


Here is the contain of my /etc/shells file in Linux box.
/usr/local/bin/bash
/bin/bash
/bin/sh
/bin/ash
/bin/bsh
/bin/bash2
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh


Please help. Thanks.
BVT

 

[root1]

Make sure bash is installed in solaris box. I have a brand new unix machine. One of users account uses bash shell, and he could never login. Finally I found out that there is no bash was installed. After I installed it , everything comes fine. I hope you have the some problem.

 

[MikeLacey]

Sounds like a syntax error in that users .profile (or whatever file it is that bash reads when you login) Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[rbobbitt]

That would be /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile by default I believe, so you might want to check all of these.

Russ
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