filepro and the SYSTEM command on SuSE Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:20:55AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Jay Ashworth done said:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:56:38AM -0500, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> > > I make a command string that looks like this:
> > > gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --output 
> > > /var/appl/cccwork/test_PR1194478701017kptestmetropr05.xml --decrypt 
> > > /home/cccinfo/test_PR1194478701017kptestmetropr05.xml.pgp < 
> > > /myblessedpassph.txt
> >
> > 2) GPG purposefully won't accept a redirected passphrase, reading it
> > from the terminal rather than standard input?
> 
> That's going to be the culprit.  Nevermind the redirect--it may be entirely
> discarded.  The problem is that it's probably hanging waiting for data on
> STDIN, and it's never going to get any with the command above.

I believe you mean "waiting for data from the terminal", right?

That is: it's fopening /dev/tty.

Cheers,
-- jra
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