rcp and non-interctive shell checking for mail...

Thread View: gnu.bash.bug

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by Jean-Francois Lamy Thu, 03 Aug 1989 14:18

#416

Author: Jean-Francois Lamy
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1989 14:18

10 lines
868 bytes

In private mail, Tom Quinn (trq@radio.astro.utoronto.ca) points out that if
you happen to rcp while you have mail, bash's spurious output will confuse
rcp.  This would explain both why the problem is intermittent and why it
was observed on several machines/OS combinations.

Until it is fixed for good, a work-around is to fix your config files to unset
MAILCHECK if test -t fails.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4

rcp and non-interctive shell checking for mail...

#422

Author: Brian Fox
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1989 23:11

22 lines
1238 bytes

   Date: 3 Aug 89 14:18:04 GMT
   From: lamy@neat.cs.toronto.edu  (Jean-Francois Lamy)
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   In private mail, Tom Quinn (trq@radio.astro.utoronto.ca) points out that if
   you happen to rcp while you have mail, bash's spurious output will confuse
   rcp.  This would explain both why the problem is intermittent and why it
   was observed on several machines/OS combinations.

Uh, I don't have this problem.  Perhaps the bug is gone now?

We can try a sample test.

I send myself mail, and then (when I know it is in the mailbox) I type

	bash -c "echo foo"

The only thing that I get is "foo".  If you get a message about mail,
then that would explain the problem.

Brian

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads