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by **Graham Nicholl** » Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:47:55

.. or any other commands that write to the tty. Its strange. I'm
running SuSE 7.2, and I've written an istty program in C which simply
calls isattty(fd), and exits with 0 if it is a tty. Even with this in my
.profile or /etc/profile, kde wont start (x does start). I'm removing my
remaining hair, so hurry!

Thanks

by **David Efflan** » Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:32:17

> .. or any other commands that write to the tty. Its strange. I'm
> running SuSE 7.2, and I've written an istty program in C which simply
> calls isattty(fd), and exits with 0 if it is a tty. Even with this in my
> .profile or /etc/profile, kde wont start (x does start). I'm removing my
> remaining hair, so hurry!

That is strange since I didn't think X consults any profile when starting
X or a normal xterm because it is not logging into a shell (unless using
xterm -ls). For example if I have a colored prompt in ~/.profile it does
not show up in an xterm unless I su -, telnet or ssh to such a user. And
there have been similar posts wondering why PATH settings in ~/.profile
are not set in an xterm.

I know very little about C, but where do you get fd from and do you check
if it is valid? What happens if it is undefined or null?

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KDE won't start if my .profile or /etc/profile has stty commands

KDE won't start if my .profile or /etc/profile has stty commands

KDE won't start if my .profile or /etc/profile has stty commands