UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I'm trying to perform a rcp to a remote machine, but it keeps throwing up "LOGNAME: undefined variable" error. When I echo $LOGNAME, it comes up with my username. I have tried setting both the .rhosts and the .hosts.equiv file but to no avail (on both machines as well out of desperation!). Anyone got any ideas?

My guess is that the error is coming from the remote system where LOGNAME is not defined. What is the rcp command that you are trying?

I have a script that searches for and then copies across new files in a certain directory. When this wasn't working I just resorted to touching a file called hello and trying to copy that across.

rcp hello username@hostname:/

What shell does the remote user have? Switch the remote user to sh or ksh. Does the problem persist? If the remote shell was csh or a clone of csh, post the contents of .cshrc.

Unfortunately we can't change the remote host from csh.
Below are the contents of the .cshrc:

set filec
setenv HOST `hostname`


#set prompt="[`hostname`:`pwd`]% "

set prompt="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\!]% "


set noclobber
set filec
set history = 40
set autologout = 0
set ignoreeof
umask 002

################################################################################
###

alias h history
alias p pushd
alias po popd
alias c clear
alias ll ls -l
alias ltr "ls -ltr"
stty erase ^H
source setup.csh

That is a terrible cshrc file. Remove the set prompt and the stty stuff. And maybe the source csh.setup depending on what's in that file.

ha ha
no matter how bad, I don't have the authority to change this file! However would you recommend trying to get this moved to say .profile? Is there something in there that you think might be causing my problem - surely the set and stty stuff can't be causing it?