Trouble with workstations reverting to tcsh?

Hello,
I have a few workstations (of many) that keep ending up in the tcsh. Whatever sets the tcsh also somehow interferes with scripts (perl,sh) running.
Aside from the scripts not running properly, I know they are in tcsh because when I ssh to them I get a tcsh promp. I have gone through the users in netinfo on these workstations to make sure all the users have the shell set to bash (except amavisd and clamav which seem to be related to some virus protection software that maybe ships with Tiger?). A reboot sets the shell back to the default, bash.
The machines are iMacs (different models) running Tiger (at least 10.4.8).
Has anyone run into this/know how this could keep happening on just a few workstations? Is there somewhere I can capture the shell change taking place? A log with a time stamp?
Thanx,
Sue

soo2 wrote:
I have a few workstations (of many) that keep ending up in the tcsh. Whatever sets the tcsh also somehow interferes with scripts (perl,sh) running.
Sue
First of all, as you recognise, workstations don't have a shell, only users do. Apart from the system users, does this affect every user on these particular workstations?
Maybe you need to check ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist for the items "ExecutionString", "Shell" and "StartupFile". Try this:
defaults read com.apple.Terminal ExecutionString
defaults read com.apple.Terminal Shell
defaults read com.apple.Terminal StartupFile(You can only do one at a time unfortunately). You need to do this for each user account that exhibits this shell-changing behaviour. You should just get a blank line in response to each command, if you don't, deleting the com.apple.Terminal.plist is the simplest solution, although there are other ways around it.

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Anyway, such a hack is unacceptable... So, my questions are:
is it indeed related to overcurrent protection ?
is there anything else I can try ?
should I file somewhere an other of the numerous bug reports about "unable to enumerate USB device" already existing ?
If of any importance, I am running linux 3.15.7, because at the time I installed my system, I couldn't get the hybrid graphic card Intel/AMD working under 3.16.
Last edited by $nake (2014-10-18 16:29:06)

uname -a
Linux libra 3.9.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 25 16:14:55 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
pacman -Qi linux
Name : linux
Version : 3.9.4-1
Description : The linux kernel and modules
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Licences : GPL2
Groups : base
Provides : kernel26=3.9.4
Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7
Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
Required By : nvidia
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : kernel26
Replaces : kernel26
Installed Size : 65562.00 KiB
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
Build Date : Sat 25 May 2013 16:28:17 CEST
Install Date : Sun 02 Jun 2013 15:30:35 CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature

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