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Why is bash --login running (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Euphoma@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I keep getting notifications that

bash --login

is a command that has completed from gnome. Is this bad?

I'm not the one running these commands btw.

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[-] NormalC@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

-l Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login shell (see INVOCATION below).

--login Equivalent to -l.

This is an excerpt from the bash manpage. So likely no, this isn't a bad thing and this is just GNOME sourcing your environment variables. You need to tell us how frequent these notification are and when they happen (also what GNOME version you're using as well as which distribution you are using). We can't help you if you don't provide that.

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm on gnome 44.3 on NixOS. I noticed 3 of them but thats it, one of them 3 hours ago and 2 of them 44 minutes ago.

Yeah I checked the manpage but wasn't sure why this would be running by itself.

[-] NormalC@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Really strange... Was there any pattern you could discern from the occurrences?

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No, not really.

[-] NormalC@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Then likely you can ignore it, or configure GNOME notifications to not display it to you. You could also seek help in NixOS related forums or continue trying to replicate the issue.

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Alright, thanks for the help :)

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

No idea why GNOME is giving you these notifications but it may be a Cron task. Check your crontab

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is this when you open a terminal? It tells me stuff like that when my terminal session is done doing something when I didn't have that windows focused

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Are you using some kind of IDE application? Or just standard GUI apps?

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I guess I'm running emacs and a couple of shell scripts, but mostly gui apps.

[-] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Then it might be one of those scripts

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, you're right, it happens after my music scraping script finishes (It takes like 30 minutes so I wasn't able to make the connection). I realized this a couple hours ago.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

does emacs have an integrated terminal view inside it? Seems like maybe it's just creating a shell for you to use inside the editor or something? Either way, "bash --login" is just a login shell which I think basically just acts like if you had just logged in instead of inheriting most stuff from whatever process launched it. It in't "logging in" like some user account or something. Unlikely that it's something nefarious. At worst, it's just usual buggy linux software interacting in weird ways.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

does emacs have [...] inside it?

Yes, it's emacs.

Seriously, it even has multiple terminal emulators.

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