Keychain breaks scp

[heathkit]

I put keychain in my .bashrc file. Now, I see that sometimes scp craps out on me. The command authenticates me, then I see keychain come up and it doesn't do anything else. Any idea what's going on? I comment keychain out of the .bashrc and scp works just fine.

[arcterex]

The solution that I found for this was to move the keychain command out of .bashrc and into my .bash_profile, and then to make sure that it's run in my terminals (I only use gnome-terminal) I changed the command that gnome-terminal runs to /bin/bash --login (in edit->current profile->title and command->run custom command).

Works for me, not the most elegant solution, but it works....

Update
I know there's a way to do it better, but after a bit of mucking about I found that when scping from another box, $PS2 is not set ($PS1 is), and when invoking /bin/bash (ie: not changing gnome-terminal as above) $PS2 is set.

Anyway, I put the following in my .bashrc, and left my .bash_profile as default, and it works. YMMV of course.