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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Login shell?
Message-ID: <1636@solo3.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 8 Nov 88 17:00:53 GMT
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In article <1230@vsedev.VSE.COM> logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
\In article <1623@solo10.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
\>In article <1217@vsedev.VSE.COM> logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
\>\... If you just want to find out what if the current
\>\shell is indeed the shell spawned by init(1M) (via getty(1M), login(1)),
\>\then just write a simple C program like this:
\>\--------
\>\#include <stdio.h>
\>\
\>\main()
\>\{
\>\	if (getppid() == getpgrp())
\>\		exit(0);
\>\	exit(1);
\>\}
\...
\>2)
\>	This scheme won't work for rsh/rlogin.
\
\It works just fine for rlogin, thank you.  I just tested it on my
\system.  
\
\Since you don't have a true session with rsh it will indicate
\correctly that the program running is not your login shell.  

When I do an rsh, I want my environment set too on the remote machine,
thank you. Effectively it IS a loginshell (rLOGIN, see?).
Are you suggesting every setenv, stty, etc. should get placed in .cshrc?
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