Why does user accounts hang while logging in with tcsh and c shell whereas using bash works normally?

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Issue

  • Why does user accounts hang while logging in withtcsh and c shell whereas using bash works normally?
  • At that point the connection/console would hang until one kills -9 the csh or tcsh process from another connection.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  • tcsh-6.17-19.el6_2.x86_64

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