.bashrc not called for non-interactive ssh sessions
Larry Hall
lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 22 01:34:00 GMT 2004
At 07:48 PM 10/21/2004, you wrote:
>As best as I can tell from the archives and man pages, ~/.bashrc
>should be called when starting an ssh session - both interactive and
>non-interactive. Tests on my Linux box behave as expected:
>
>ssh linuxbox
>ssh linuxbox pwd
>ssh cygwinbox
>
>But ssh cygwinbox pwd does *not* call ~/.bashrc...
>
>>From the bash man page:
>
> Bash attempts to determine when it is being run by the remote shell
> daemon, usually rshd. If bash determines it is being run by rshd, it
> reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists and is
> readable. It will not do this if invoked as sh. The --norc option may
> be used to inhibit this behavior, and the --rcfile option may be used
> to force another file to be read, but rshd does not generally invoke
> the shell with those options or allow them to be specified.
WFM. What's your shell in '/etc/profile'?
--
Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list