Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64703
gnome-terminal doesn't execute programs via -e
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: gnome-terminal -x ssh hostname should execute 'ssh hostname' instead of the standard user shell. I can't find any means of making this work in the 7.3 gnome-terminal, while it worked fine under Ximian gnome 1.4 and (I'm pretty sure, but I don't have the boxes handy to test) on previous RH Gnome releases. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gnome-terminal -x ssh someremotehost Actual Results: You get a new gnome-terminal window, but with a local shell instead of a remote shell via ssh Expected Results: An ssh based login to the remote host. Any text oriented program can be substituted for 'ssh someremotehost', it just happens to be the test case I discovered this with. Additional info:
Okay, so the summary should say -x not -e. The problem otherwise stands as documented.
7.2 and 7.3 have the same version of gnome-terminal though, so that's strange. -e works?
No, -e doesn't work either. Nor does --execute.
Works for me. Try "gnome-terminal -e top" and send along the output of "gnome-terminal --version" and "rpm -q gnome-core"
gnome-terminal -e top <new terminal window, login shell instead of top> homestake 16:43:22 [zoo] gnome-terminal --version Gnome Terminal 1.4.0.4 homestake 16:44:06 [zoo] rpm -q gnome-core gnome-core-1.4.0.4-54
Weird. Maybe try "rpm --verify gnome-core" Perhaps you have a "factory" terminal running, and your command line is just starting up another window in the current terminal. The factory mode (--start-factory) doesn't work quite right because it doesn't forward command line args.
All kosher on the rpm-verify. I did have some terminal windows started with: gnome-terminal --use-factory --start-factory-server which is what I get from the "Programs|System|GNOME terminal" menu choice. I killed off all of those processes, and then (from an xterm) started all of the test cases (-e, -x, --command, --execute). No difference in execution (just the user shell).
I don't have any more ideas on what to check. I'll think about it, and we'll see if more reports come in.
gnome-terminal codebase is entirely replaced in rawhide, so this bug no longer applies. Others probably do. ;-)