Ah, good call. I'll try it. Thanks On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Mike Orr wrote:
>Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your >login shell to exit immediately. > >I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script. I would get >"Script started, output file is typescript" and then it would immediately >exit with "Script done, output file is typescript". This happens with >bash at the console, but it does not happen in an rxvt, and it doesn't >happen with zsh at all. I don't notice it anymore since I use zsh all the >time now, but a quick check revealed that it's still doing that. > >Try putting an "echo Hello telnet world" as the first line of you .bashrc >(or whatever shell initialization file you use), to verify whether your >telnet session gets at least that far. If it doesn't, try switching login >shells and see if it that works. > >************** MICHAEL SCOTT ORR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ***************** >* * 1405 NE 56th Street, Seattle, WA 98105 USA * English * >* * Tel: +1 (206) 522-9627, fax: 328-6209 * Russki * >* * Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Esperanto * >***************** (Insert silly quote here) ************************ > > Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination