On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 16:42, Frank Sorenson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Stuart Jansen said: > <snip> > > The crux of your problem was the sentence "This server management tool > > ssh-es to the HP-UX machine." SSH/KSH detect that there is no tty > > attached to the session, so it doesn't bother running the .profile. I > > have found no way to force KSH to source the .profile. This causes an > > annoying umask bug for me. > > A tty can be forced by including '-t' on the ssh command line (man ssh). > If I understand correctly, this should cause the .profile to be sourced.
Unfortunately, it didn't. I guess the explanation I found was incomplete. SSH and/or KSH must be doing more than just checking for a tty. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> Programming in Java feels like C without the sense of accomplishment.
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