On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Richard Revis wrote: > I have a .bash_profile that calls .bashrc, and fortune is called from > .bashrc (fortune -s bofh-excuses homer futurama chalkboard) to give me a > quote when I log in. > > This mostly works fine, but when I try and scp something _to_ this machine > from another it just displays the first line of the fortune and then > quits. > > Which file is it that scp calls, and is it possible to disable it and/or > move fortune to another file so it only shows up for shell logons (or even > local logins)?
>From the top of .bashrc: # This file is sourced by all bash shells on startup, whether interactive # or not. This file *should generate no output* or it will break the # scp and rcp commands. >From the top of .bash_profile: #This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively. So, you should have your fortune command in .bash_profile. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
