Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

[Lesley Walker <lesley.walker@opus.co.nz>]

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.

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