Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 02:17:30 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: George Sanders <gosand1982@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Any way to have login output AND use rsync/scp ? Message-ID: <20110502021730.f87d654f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110502021317.af30339c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <761855.57021.qm@web120004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20110502021317.af30339c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 2 May 2011 02:13:17 +0200, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sun, 1 May 2011 15:58:45 -0700 (PDT), George Sanders <gosand1982@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I have my .cshrc file run some basic netstat and 'w' commands so that when I log > > in, I can see at a glance what is going on on the system and notice any unusual > > login activity, etc. > > > > However this completely breaks both scp and rsync - they cannot function at all > > (apparently) with any kind of stdio output from the shell. > > > > Is there any way around this ? > > > Create a file ~/.login and put your commands (in sh syntax, > not csh) there. This file will only be executed at interactive > logins. See "man csh", section FILES for details. Sorry, wrote before thinking. :-) Of course ~/.login is csh syntax, as I would guess after (missed to) read the file's header which states: # .login - csh login script, read by login shell, after `.cshrc' at login. # see also csh(1), environ(7). So simply moving your commands from .cshrc to .login should be fully sufficient. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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