Re: remote access via ssh?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:06:35PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> Remote system is debian derivative. When I access this system
> using ssh, the connection does not execute $HOME/.bashrc
> on remote system.

My .bash_profile starts with

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
  source ~/.bashrc
fi

According to the bash manpage, 

       When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
       active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-
       mands  from  the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.  After reading
       that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
       in  that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that
       exists and is readable.

       ...

       When an interactive shell that is not a login shell  is  started, bash
       reads  and  executes  commands  from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if
       these files exist.

I would assume that logging in via ssh gives you an interactive login
shell, therefore bash will only execute .bash_profile and not .bashrc.
The clause from my .bash_profile shown above "fixes" that by making
.bashrc run for all interactive shells, whether login shells or not.

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