Excerpts from mail: (16-Apr-97) 'Valid Shells for mailing to programs' by
Matthew Wilds Mauzy
The machine that is reporting the problem is a Solaris 2.5 machine. I can
succesfully recieve mail on the DECs. I know its possible to restrict
mailer shells, but I haven't done any of that on this machine. Any ideas?
What is your shell on this Solaris 2.5 machine? Is that shell listed in that
machine's /etc/shells file? In my experience, that error message is caused by
one's shell not being listed in /etc/shells.
Myt shell is tcsh (but I've also tried it with my shell set the csh).
I had to add the tcsh shell to my /etc/shells file, but it should work
now that its been added, right? :-)
Thanks for the variable info. I had used the SYSTEM_MBOX varible, but
had the wrong $<var> to go with it.
--Matthew "Still stuck with the shell problem" Mauzy
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