On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:05:42PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> Okay lots of people have reported the problems with Eterm and TMOUT
> complaining. For some reason which I haven't tried to figure out bash
> run under Eterm is sourcing /etc/bashrc twice.
>
> bashrc sources /etc/profile.d/msec.sh
> which sources /etc/sysconfig/msec
>
> The last contains TMOUT=0
> msec.sh then sets it readonly.
>
> Wrapping the TMOUT=0 in /etc/sysconfig/msec like so fixes it but
> probably not an ideal way to fix the problem:
> if ! readonly | grep -q TMOUT;then
> TMOUT=0
> fi
Okay more info.
All of Eterm's shells default to running a login shell.
Courtesy of the following line in the MAIN file of the themes:
login_shell true
Changing it to false gets rid of the error.
However, this really isn't an Eterm issue. This occurs with any login
shell. Running:
xterm -ls
konsole -ls
aterm -ls
gnome-terminal --login
rxvt -ls
Will all make this error occur.
Here's why:
When bash is invoked as a login shell it first sources /etc/profile,
which sources all the files in /etc/profile.d and runs msec.sh. Then it
looks for ~/.bash_profile which sources ~/.bashrc which sources
/etc/bashrc which also sources everything in /etc/profile.d again
running msec.sh. And then it looks for ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile
neither of which Mandrake installs in the default users.
So the question is how do you get both types of bash invocations to run
the files in /etc/profile.d without running them twice.
Well there is already a test in there for $SHLVL however, $SHLVL has
nothing to do with login shells. The shell does however set a special
variable $loginsh when it is a login shell. Testing this will fix the
problem.
I've attached a patch to /etc/bashrc that fixes the problem.
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http://ben.reser.org
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*** /etc/bashrc~ Mon Mar 11 17:01:17 2002
--- /etc/bashrc Mon Mar 11 17:01:33 2002
***************
*** 22,28 ****
esac
[ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
! if [ "x$SHLVL" != "x1" ]; then # We're not a login shell
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
--- 22,28 ----
esac
[ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
! if [ -n "$loginsh" ]; then # We're not a login shell
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
