Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:03:28 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet problem from Windows to stable from July 18th Message-ID: <20010725180328.A17305@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <E15PPs7-000HAT-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>; from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM %2B0100 References: <E15PPs7-000HAT-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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Pete French:
|I have a user whos login .profile consists of the line:
|exec bin/test.sh
|
|The script "test.sh" looks like this:
...
|while test "${FILE_NAME}" = ""
|do
...
| read n
...
|done
...
|What now happens is that if someone telnets to the box (from any
|windows telnet client - not just the standard telnet) and logs in
|then are presented with a continually scrolling screen of
|
|Choice: is not a valid choice - please choose again
|Choice: is not a valid choice - please choose again
...
|Interestingly, if I alter the .profile to
|
|bin/test.sh
|exit
...
|then the script functions fine.
Don't know the reason why but it sure sounds like that when the Bourne
script is execed from ~/.profile, the terminal isn't being connected up to
the stdin of the script, but when you invoke it as a child process it is.
To the top of your test.sh script, add a:
$ if [ -t 0 ]; then
echo Got a terminal
else
echo What\! ... No Terminal\!
fi
check and see what happens.
Randall
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Randall Hopper
aa8vb@nc.rr.com
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