Dear Rajkiran, Thank you for your help. I access the "Open Unix Shell" from the system desktop icon. I also tried to "Start New Console", it just did the same thing, blinked for a while, then disappeared. I remotely login, and typed echo $shell, it showed /bin/csh. Wishes --- Rajkiran Parasnis <rodimail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 Weidong Hu wrote : > >Hi Guys, > > > >I know it may not be a right place to post this > >problem and ask for help. But, I did not find a > proper > >unix mailing list yet. So, I hope that I can get > some > >help from this mailing group. > > > >We have a sgi unix machine, and when individual > users > >or even root login, and click on "open unix shell", > it > >just blinked for a while, then nothing happened. We > >don't know what is going on. The workstation seems > >normal except for this strange problem. What should > I > >do to fix this problem? > > > Hello Dr.Weidong Hu, > From your mail it seems that you are using a gui > tool for SGi Unix. > Instead if you have access to a xterm or system > console.Then you can type this command echo $SHELL. > This command will display the shell used > by the current shell. > > Rajkiran > India > > > >Thanks > > > >Dr. Weidong Hu > >Immunology Division, BRI, City of Hope > >1500 Duarte Rd., Duarte, CA 91010 > >Tel: 626 359-8111, ext: 63416 > >Fax: 626 301-8186 > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________ > >Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Rpm-list mailing list > >Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs