Hello Chet and Eduardo,
thank you very much for your replies. Everything is crystal clear now.
Sorry for the 'wrong alarm' (:
Best,
Nick
On 20/12/2016 20:24, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 12/20/16 11:11 AM, Nick wrote:
i came up with a weird behavior of ssh+bash on my Debian box (8.6).
I created an alias in /etc/bash.bashrc file, which is sourced through
/etc/profile.
Everything worked fine, till i decided to remove the '.
/etc/bash.bashrc' line from /etc/profile.
When i` m connected via ssh the '/etc/bash.bashrc' is not sourced and
the alias does not work as expected.
But, when i execute bash from my shell, the '/etc/bash.bashrc' seems
to be sourced and the alias is there (please find bellow a demo)
ssh without a command is equivalent to slogin, which starts a login shell
on the remote host. Login shells don't execute ~/.bashrc (and, if so
configured, SYS_BASHRC), so there's usually a line to source it in one of
the login shell startup files (/etc/profile in your case). That's why
it's there, and that's why removing it had the effect you observed.
Not sure if i miss something (f.x. bash is executed with different
flags while being called from ssh versus a user), but as far as i understand,
the same things should be (or not) sourced.
Well, it's the difference between a login shell and a non-login interactive
shell.
