Re: [PLUG] ssh login vs bash (how to invoke bash)

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:18:46AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Q: Why doesn't bash get read .bashrc for me when invoked by sshd?

Check out the bash manpage, and search for 'INVOCATION' at the beginning of
a line ('/^INVOCATION'):
       When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or  as
       a  non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first
       reads and executes commands 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.  The --noprofile  option  may
       be  used  when the shell is started to inhibit this behav­
       ior.

Solution: Run the following command:

$ echo "if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi" >> ~/.bash_profile 

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