On Tuesday 19 April 2011 20:18:38 Roland Roland wrote:
Dear all,
i've appended the below to /etc/bashrc it works like a charm with ssh connections though SFTP sessions fail since the below is being sent to the intiator. any way of limiting the below to none sftp sessions? or any other idea for it to work?
# If id command returns zero, you’ve root access. if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then # you are root, set red colour prompt echo "###############################################" echo "### You are now working as ROOT. ###" echo "### Pay attention to what you type. ###" echo "###############################################" PS1="\[$(tput setaf 1)\]\u@\h:\w #\[$(tput sgr0)\]" else # normal echo echo " ###########################################################" echo "Welcome $(whoami), here's something to start your day with:" echo echo `sh /etc/lines.sh /etc/quotes.txt` echo " ############################################################" echo PS1="[\u@\h:\w] $" fi
Rolan, you have two choices:
1. Print the whole content on STDERR so you don't disturb the sftp
2. if [ "$-" != 'hBc' ]; then echo 'your content here'; fi
If you go to the second option, the idea there is that $- is set to hBc every time you use the shell from SFTP (non-interactive mode). So you echo all the things you like only if it is an interactive shell.
Marian