From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 03:46:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFE316A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:46:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056F843D58 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:46:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7N3kFoK006834; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7N3kFlv061461; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7N3kEiG061460; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:46:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20040823034613.GC61085@thought.org> References: <20040822224148.GA60895@thought.org> <20040823030848.GA70547@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040823030848.GA70547@dan.emsphone.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: How can I tell if I'm ssh'd into a host? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:46:20 -0000 On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:08:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 22), Gary Kline said: > > This is a strange one. On different hosts in my ~/.zlogin, I test > > for `hostname` = HOST.thought.org > > > > If true, I do certain things such as set xhost FOO and xmodmap > > ~/.xmodmaprc... I've noticed that with my 5-CURRENT on my laptop, I > > get complains from xhost and naturally, xmodmap. > > > > Is there a way of asking where I am on the console/KVM, or remote and > > ssh'd? Sorry if I''m not explaining this well. --I didn't notice > > these complains when I had 4.10 on my laptop. Aside from having > > .zlogin prompt: "Are you ssh'd in? [y/[n]] " I'm drawing a blank. > > It sounds like you really want to know whether you're running under X > or not, since you mention xhost errors. If you ssh in from a console > login, xhost/xmodmap will still complain :) You can test to see if > $DISPLAY is set to see whether you're connecting from an X session. > > if [ $+DISPLAY -eq 1 ] ; then > # do X stuff > fi > Yep, this works too. Thanks duly noted to you and Giorgos Keramid for both examples. These are going to come in handy as my network grows! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix