login shell or not?

2007-02-12 Thread peter360
In an interative shell, what is the easiest way to tell whether it is a login shell or not? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/login-shell-or-not--tf3211932.html#a8919535 Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

wrong lineno inside trap?

2009-01-09 Thread peter360
I wrote a test program test.sh: trap ' echo this is line 3, but LINENO=$LINENO ' 0 echo this is line 7, and LINENO=$LINENO --- when I ran it I got $ sh /tmp/test.sh this is line 7, and LINENO=7 this is line 3, but LINE

Re: wrong lineno inside trap?

2009-01-14 Thread peter360
Chet Ramey wrote: > > > Bash-4.0 should behave better in this area, but quoted strings will > always cause unpredictable values for $LINENO. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.edu > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/

ulimit and ssh?

2009-09-02 Thread peter360
Can someone explain this to me? Why am I not seeing correct results from ulimit after ssh into localhost? Thanks! $ ssh localhost bash -c 'ulimit -a' unlimited but $ bash -c 'ulimit -a' core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority

Re: ulimit and ssh?

2009-09-02 Thread peter360
) actually concatenate them into one, and sshd forks a shell to parse the concatenated command string, in this case "bash -c ulimit -a".Correct me if I am wrong. Glad I learned something new. Bob Proulx wrote: > > peter360 wrote: >> Can someone explain this to me? Why am I

Re: ulimit and ssh?

2009-09-08 Thread peter360
need to read the source of ssh and bash to really understand this... Bob Proulx wrote: > > peter360 wrote: >> So, just to make sure I really understand this, here is how I understand >> ssh >> worked: even thought I gave the command bash -c 'ulimit -a' as 3 separate &g

Re: ulimit and ssh?

2009-09-20 Thread peter360
That makes sense. So the "feature" is to split all parameters on space even if they are quoted? I would vote to remove this "feature" in ssh. Thanks for the explanation. Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:39:02AM -0700, peter360 wrote: >>

Re: ulimit and ssh?

2009-09-20 Thread peter360
In my case, I just got $ ssh localhost bash -x -c 'ulimit -a' unlimited + ulimit Not very informative. Marc Herbert-6 wrote: > > peter360 a écrit : > >> Thanks for the explanation. So my understanding of the way ssh works is >> still incorrect. I am confus

Re: ulimit and ssh?

2009-10-05 Thread peter360
Thanks Adreas. That was what I suspected in my reply to Bob. But Bob disagreed. Looks like there were some confusion about this feature even among experts. Seems another reason to deprecate the feature. -peter Andreas Schwab-2 wrote: > > peter360 writes: > >> That m

Re: ulimit and ssh?

2010-01-08 Thread peter360
Proulx wrote: > > peter360 wrote: >> Thanks Adreas. That was what I suspected in my reply to Bob. But Bob >> disagreed. Looks like there were some confusion about this feature even >> among experts. Seems another reason to deprecate the feature. > > I don't t