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BobL

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-05-04

Posts: 19

Extremely strange login messages.....

So I start up the linux machine, log in and instead of the normal last logon message I got something like this:

declare -x HUSHLOGIN="FALSE"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x PATH="/bin:/usr/bin"
declare -x HZ="100"

along with a few more....a hacker perhaps ( I am behind a router ) or maybe I just hit the "x" key as I hit enter?  Or is this the xserver?     

Thanks,

BobL

Euphoric Nightmare

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From: Kentucky

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 283

Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

I assume you aren't using kdm/gdm/xdm or anything like that?

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BobL

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-05-04

Posts: 19

Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

Correct,

This login I am talking about, straight command line,

Login:
Password:

Sorry about that, I should have made the question clearer.     

Additionally, this seems to be the machines envirornment settings to a degree, although WHY it is printing them out is the question.

BobL

Euphoric Nightmare

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From: Kentucky

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 283

Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

Is there anything weird in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc?
What if you log on with another user?
What if you create a new user and log in with it?

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BobL

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-05-04

Posts: 19

Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

No, not at all.   I will try to create another user and see what happens.  If it does occur again, well reformat and start over, unless there are some better ideas?  (hint )

Thanks again,

BobL

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

Check /etc/profile if its universal to all users.

No need to reinstall, that's an old-fashioned windows style solution... although sometimes it works faster than traking down the problem. ;-)

Dusty

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keevn7

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From: Lancaster, OH, US

Registered: 2005-06-09

Posts: 206

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Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

Sounds like a configuration issue. Do not worry about people trying to crack into your box or something, as messages like that do not mean that.

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CyberTron

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From: Gotland ,Sweden

Registered: 2005-03-17

Posts: 645

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Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

I had similar to those too....didn't get rid of them...

did you manage to fix this? how?

My fix was rather controversal I reinstalled arch *ashamed*

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BobL

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-05-04

Posts: 19

Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

Just saw that I had not updated this thread with the solution.    I spotted the answer from a previous post ( sometime in March of last year I think ).   What was happening is that in a normal  etc/profile,  the top line says something like :

export PATH="/bin:/sbin:  ........

well in my etc/profile it said this

export
PATH="/bin:/sbin:.....

so the export command fired.....which is what was causing all the declare -x statements after logging in.

heh, so a very easy fix....

export
PATH="/bin:/sbin:.....   

change to:

export PATH="/bin:/sbin:  ........      ( Yes, I know  VERY obvious, but this would have helped when I was a 3 week noob!!!)

Hope this helps out somebody

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

How would that have happened tho I wonder?

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Extremely strange login messages.....

editing with nano. nano loves to wrap lines.