Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

[Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +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.
> 
> 
That is odd. IIRC control-d was set to 'exit'. so in this case various
signals are set to do the same thing. Why is beyond me.
-K
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