srerucha

Hi,
I've got strange problem:

After added command

perl do_sth_ob_bg.pl &

to my .bashrc (yes, using bash), scp to that machine stops to work, it connects and hangs. After a while, it's dropped with timeout.

Anyone could explain it ? Any suggestion to work-around ?

Thanx a lot, merry xmas ))

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anomie

Well, what does this do exactly?

srerucha

Here is it .. it displays machine load in xterm title bar. Guess that may cause the problems for scp....

srerucha@box:~> cat ~/bin/load.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
$|++;

my $host=`/bin/hostname`;
chomp $host;

while(1) {

open(LOAD,"/proc/loadavg") || die "Couldn't open /proc/loadavg: $!\n";

my @load=split(/ /,<LOAD>);
close(LOAD);

print "\033]0;";
print "$host: $load[0] $load[1] $load[2] at ", scalar(localtime);
print "\007";

sleep 2;
}

anomie

I wonder if you could add that to a more appropriate place. Rather than the ~/.bashrc file, how about adding the entry to some place related to X?

Are you using KDE? If so, add it to ~/.kde/Autostart. If not, which desktop environment are you using?

If nothing is available within your desktop environment for this purpose, you could add the entry to the ~/.xinitrc file.

Lotharster

I had the same problem. If bashrc contains any echo or similar commands, scp tries t parse the messages and gets confused.