Jiju Thomas Mathew forced the electrons to say:
> login: jijutm
> Password:
> Last login: Thu Feb 10 08:10:28 from digitel
> [: too many arguments
> [jijutm@ws1] ~$
The error is in the stock /etc/profile supplied by redhat. For reasons
unknown to me, at times, the lines in /etc/profile,
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
choke.
The solution is of course, to remove them altogether, or, to put
quotes, like this:
if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a "`id -u`" -gt 14 ]; then
I think some version of id (or maybe for some login ids) the -n switch
does not work with id, and it prints nothing - not even an error
message.
Binand
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