Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Mark Gordon To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: output allowed in .bashrc and .tcshrc (Was: Virus Found) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:51:09 +0100 Organization: Only Occasionally Message-ID: <66nrptktu176g170pqudpgf47697rp1dn5@4ax.com> References: <20010911004146.H937@cygbert.vinschen.de> <8F23E55D511AD5119A6800D0B76FDDE101A26A59@cpex3.channelpoint.com> <59jqpt4f25eochmtlslvv9nodngnkeeo3d@4ax.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010911020929.00ac0fc0@imap.local.mscha.com> <20010911111946.A1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> <7996-Tue11Sep2001104432+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <7996-Tue11Sep2001104432+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.553 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id FAA16453 On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44:32 +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Tuesday 11 Sep 01, Corinna Vinschen writes: >> ... If your login shell is bash and bash has been started by >> rshd/sshd, it executes ~/.bashrc. So the rule is, no output in >> ~/.bashrc. >> >> And, IIRC, the same rule applies for tcsh and ~/.cshrc. > >Just to be precise and complete... > >That's almost correct. Your *are* allowed to generate output in >.bashrc (and in .cshrc for tcsh) for *interactive* shells only. The >usual way to test is to check for the existence of a prompt. ($PS1 in >bash, $prompt in tcsh.) If no prompt is defined, you must not >generate *any* output. On the SCO box I have here with tcsh the same applies to /etc/csh.cshrc (I just tested this). You can (on this system at least) get away with calling stty on non-interactive shells, although it does generate an error so one probably should not. Unfortunately on this SCO box (which I did not set up) it was doing ALL of the things it should not! -- Mark Gordon - To email me replace spamtrap with mark.gordon A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/