On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:58 +1300, Lesley Walker wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: > > > > > After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills > > > the current interactive Bash shell. > > > ... > > > I feel as though I must be overlooking something completely obvious, can > > > anyone suggest what? > > > > > Console or an X window? > > > It happens on both. > > Never mind... I think I found it. We have this line in /etc/profile: > trap "exit" 2 3 23 > If I comment it out the problem goes away. Time for me go and RTFM on > traps.
I think people have been misreading this. It means on signals 2, 3 or 23 then call exit. Signal 2 is SIGINT. Thus your trap is doing the expected. For what it's worth, I've no 'trap' comment in any of my /etc/profile files... do you really want to close a shell on certain user signals??? M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
