Tcsh script does not exit

Question

I am running CentOS 7, and I am having problems with tcsh scripts.

I have a simple script called quittest.

#!/bin/tcsh
echo "Simple Test"
exit 0

When I run quittest from the terminal, I get

"Simple Test"

And it does not exit. I can Control+C to exit. I check on the status of this with:

ps aux

and it shows quittest with a state of S+ (foreground interruptible sleep). If I change this script to bash, or sh, it runs fine, and exits as expected.

I cannot just switch to another shell, because my users have very complex scripts written with tcsh. We are replacing OpenSuSE 12.3 with CentOS 7.

Tcsh version 6.18.01-7. SELinux is set to permissive for testing this issue.

Answer 1

Turns out, my ~/.history file was the issue. I deleted that and the script ran as intended. Must have gotten hung up with a permissions issue at some point.