login success only once

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 02 April 2007 05:08, kaimi wrote:
> > Can you dig a bit deeper? Where exactly it fails for you?
> 
> my /etc/profile followed:
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib
> echo "export PATH in /etc/profile"
> export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> 
> the startup messages followed:
> ARM login: root
> Password:
> export PATH in /etc/profile
> [root at ARM ~]# logout
> ARM login: root
> Password:
> export PATH in /etc/profile
> [root at ARM ~]# login
> ARM login: root
> 
> you can see, at startup, login works, it works after logout as well, but
> it's failed if login on shell prompts. how to trace the exact point? thanks

You can add printf("marker N\n") into login in various places
and find out where it stops.
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