Interesting $0 Problem
Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundraware.com
Fri Oct 28 02:53:01 UTC 2016
On 10/27/2016 09:44 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 10/27/2016 09:40 PM, Alphons van Werven wrote:
>> Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>
>>> He refers to the leading hyphen
>>
>> Which indicates a login shell.
>>
>> Fonz
>>
>
> I've used *BSD for decades and this is a new one to me. I've never seen
> this behavior anywhere else (like Linux). Do you have some sense of the
> rationale' for this?
>
>
>
I take it all back. If I log into a linux from a console or via ssh I DO
see the '-' prepended. It seems I wasn't seeing it on Linux because I was
getting to a shell after a bunch of other login activity - I use Linux as
a desktop GUI and FreeBSD as a server ...
Old Dog, New Tricks etc. Thanks for the help :)
<Slinks off in shame and humiliation...>
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