* Gene Spafford wrote on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 03:37:42AM CET:
> I use ksh
> As part of the .profile, it runs the terminal reset sequence each login
> I don't see this as bad behavior
>
> The ,kshrc file sets the prompt and does no other output.
>
> I don't see either of these as setting up a bad environment
Both of these are useful when setting up an interactive shell, but for a
noninteractive shell, they make little sense. Shell setups that produce
output tend to bother other programs like ssh as well.
One easy workaround is to wrap these commands in
case $- in
*i*)
setup for interactive shell ...
;;
esac
Cheers,
Ralf
