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 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:44:32 +0100 Message-ID: <7996-Tue11Sep2001104432+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: output allowed in .bashrc and .tcshrc (Was: Virus Found) In-Reply-To: <20010911111946.A1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> 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> 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. Hope this helps. Regards, David -- 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/