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> I wonder whether this problem has been beaten to death in this group 
> before.  I use bash 1.12.1  as login shell on my machines (Sun Sparcs 
> running SunOS 4.1.1) and having problem with rsh and rcp. The symptoms
> are as follows:
> 
>     host1>  rcp localfile host2:remotefile
>     stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket
>     host1>  rsh host2 ls
>     stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket

I'll bet you have something that does output or manipulates the terminal
state in your .bashrc.  Bash attempts to source the .bashrc for non-
interactive shells running rsh and rcp so things like $PATH get set.

What you should probably do is to make your .bashrc look like this:

unset INTERACTIVE
case "$-" in
*i*)	INTERACTIVE=on ;;
esac

... initialization for all shells, interactive or not ...

if [ -z "$INTERACTIVE" ]; then
	return
fi

... initialization for all interactive shells ...

Chet

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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu