From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2715 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 15:42:28 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 15:42:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 2169 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2003 15:42:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6437 Received: (qmail 2160 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 15:42:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 15:42:19 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [199.67.51.101] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 15:42:19 -0000 Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h74FgGE9004683 for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:42:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:42:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: ZSH User List Subject: Re: interactive shell with ssh Message-ID: <20030804154216.GK38843@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030804111148.GA5224@spiegl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030804111148.GA5224@spiegl.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i > After I found a solution to that (using zshenv) I next noticed that > "dialog" (which is used by the Debian install scripts to ask > configuration questions) doesn't work either because TERM is not set > and because zsh thinks there is no tty. Now I'm stuck. :-( That's because there is no tty; by default ssh does not allocate a tty when you pass it a command to execute. Run ssh -t to force a tty to be created. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com