From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22565 invoked from network); 27 Jan 1997 18:14:24 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Jan 1997 18:14:24 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA29994; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 13:05:48 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:35:47 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <1192.199701271737@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: problems with 'rm -i' To: mito@SPRYNet.COM Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:17:34 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: from "Louis-David Mitterrand" at Jan 27, 97 04:39:47 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]8792.97 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers Content-Type: text Sender: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk Resent-Message-ID: <"Ca9fG1.0.s07.oTExo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/625 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: >Using Debian 1.2, zsh 3.0.2 in an rxvt I've got a strange problem: after >a while the 'rm -i' (actually it's 'rm' since it is aliased to 'rm -i') >stops working... That is: it dosen't even prompt me for confirmation of >removal and dosen't remove anything. 'rm -f' still works though. If I >restart the terminal it works again for a while. Strange... > >I suspect it might be terminal thing because sometimes the removal >confirmations prompts are printed when I hit but I can't answer >them, I am put directly at the next shell prompt. Is it possible that you are executing a shell command that loses the original stdin? Something like exec < /dev/null would have the effects you describe. You would still be able to enter shell commands normally, as zsh reads directly from the terminal, without using stdin. -zefram