Bash profiles oh boy:)

"Steven M. Klass" wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>

>         Does anyone know a way to determine (in bash) if a user is comming from a
> locally or remotely (ssh || rlogin || telnet etc..)?

>

>         My .bash_profile is getting FAT!!

>
Look at the utility tty as this returns /dev/pts/x (where x is a number)
at least on a local terminal. I used to use a c fcn isTTY or something
like this to determine whether a program was being run in a terminal or
not.

Hope this helps,
Eric