On Wednesday 20 April 2011 00:26:04 Marian Marinov wrote: > 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 Just to make things clear, this is from the bash manual: An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments and without the -c option whose standard input and error are both connected to terminals (as determined by isatty(3)), or one started with the -i option. PS1 is set and $- includes i if bash is interactive, allowing a shell script or a startup file to test this state. You can also test if you want with these two tests: if [[ "$-" =~ 'i' ]]; then echo interactive; fi if ( echo $- |grep i > /dev/null ); then echo interactive; fi Marian -- Best regards, Marian Marinov -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110420/5c9f2f92/attachment-0002.sig>