Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

[Dan Berdine <db002i@mail.rochester.edu>]

On Thursday 19 July 2001 12:10 pm, D-Man wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine 
wrote:
> | Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell
> | where bash is running from?  For example, is there a variable I can
> | test in my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a
> | tty, from konsole, an xterm, etc.?  I'v looked at the Advanced
> | Scripting HOWTO, but the only thing that looked promising was
> | "$BASH_ENV" which seems to be empty.
>
> Based on your examples there, $TERM might be helpful.  For example in
> my .cshrc on the school's Solaris box I have
>
> if ( "$TERM" == "linux" )
>     bash && exit
> end
>
> so when I login from my linux box (console) I automatically get bash
> and I don't have to exit csh after I exit from bash.

ok, not exactly what I wanted and not fool proof, but it helps.  :)

Thanks,

-Dan