BAD HZ VALUE --- Error

Rich Braun rbraun at spdcc.COM
Sun Feb 3 16:06:10 AEST 1991


testurm at informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm (AKBP WS 1990)) writes:
>I installed UNIX386 3.2 SCO, and after relinking the kernel,
>some programms (such like su...) bring up the message:
>Bad Hz Value
>Using 60 from /usr/include/sys/params.h
>...
>Can you help ??

This is a problem known at SCO.  When I asked them about this, they
told me it's because I'd set csh for user root in /etc/passwd.  Their
solution is to use sh for user root.

I don't like this solution.  Does anyone have a better idea?  In the
meantime, I set sh in /etc/passwd, and immediately run csh from
.profile in the root directory.  (But then 'su' gives me sh.  Barf.)

Presumably this will be 'fixed in next release'.  But who knows when
that will be?  (if you know, please post...)

-rich



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