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Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +1300, Lesley Walker wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>     On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote:
>>
>>
>>         After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills
>>         the current interactive Bash shell.
>>         ...
>>         I feel as though I must be overlooking something completely obvious, 
>> can
>>         anyone suggest what?
>>
>>
>>
>>     Console or an X window?
>>
>>
>>
>> It happens on both.
>>
>> Never mind... I think I found it. We have this line in /etc/profile:
>> trap "exit" 2 3 23
>> If I comment it out the problem goes away. Time for me go and RTFM on traps.
>>
>>
> That is odd. IIRC control-d was set to 'exit'. so in this case various
> signals are set to do the same thing. Why is beyond me.
> -K

ctrl + D sends an EOF to the stdin of whatever your terminal is hooked
up to FYI, kills all sorts of stuff, whereas ctrl + C traditionally
sends SIGINT.
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