Re: the tcsh login-shell problem -- ideas?

Matt writes:

> Try the following (although I only tested from a cygwin client to a
> linux server with bash, ash and tcsh -- no warranties for anything else :)).
> 
> (echo "exec /bin/sh <<\"EOF\""; cat test.sh; echo; echo "exit \$?") |
> ssh frodo newgrp users; echo "Exit code was $?"
> 
> Bizarelly adding an 'echo EOF' at the end just causes the remote /bin/sh
> to complain that it cannot find the command 'EOF', but missing it off
> doesn't seem to hurt.

Going to a solaris box with /bin/csh on the far side, it
*insists* on the EOF terminator and never finds it, no
matter where I stick it.  Yeeps!

Twisty passages, all alike...

Will

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