/etc/profile
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Mon Dec 22 23:22:37 UTC 2008
On 21Dec2008 13:37, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
| I've been running F9 for a while. About two weeks ago
| I started getting sequences like the following every
| time I log in:
|
| [1] 3875
| [2] 3877
| [3] 3879
| [4] 3880
| [5] 3881
| [6] 3882
| [7] 3883
| [8] 3885
| [9] 3888
| [10] 3891
| [11] 3895
| [12] 3899
| [13] 3901
| [14] 3903
| [15] 3905
| [16] 3907
| [17] 3909
|
| I got rid of this by setting permissions of /etc/profile to 000,
| although the sequences still show up when I log in as root.
| I've looked at the /etc/profile code but I don't understand it.
| What code in /etc/profile generates these sequences?
It sounds like it is being sourced by an interactive job control
capable shell; that looks like the job control stuff reporting the job
numbers and process ids of background jobs as they are started.
Are you sourcing /etc/profile yourself, by hand?
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