On 06Jun2006 08:54, Steven W. Orr <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Be aware that ssh starts a login shell except if you are running a | specific command. e.g., ssh foo is a login shell, but ssh foo pwd is not. | So the correct thing to do is to set your PATH in you .bash_profile and to | also set it in your .bashrc IF YOU ARE NOT INTERACTIVE. Test if you're | interactive in your .bashrc by looking if $PS1 is null. | | if [[ -z "$PS1" ]] | then | # Set aliases here | else | # Set PATH here | fi God, NO. That's what the RedHat bashrc do. It's very wrong. Test for an "i" in the $- variable. People used to just set $PS1 and export it. Worked just fine - happened in your .profile and all was good. I had to _stop_ doing that because the idiots at RedHat expect $PS1 to be set only in interactive shells (circularly, because they expect it to be set in the bashrc...). It is false logic, and routinely trashed my setups. Test $-, and ignore $PS1. Of course, one of the first things we do in our standard installs at work is to discard the /etc/bashrc supplied by RH completely. It's very dodgy. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Top executives cannot afford to be isolated from the people below, who are in better touch with what is going on, and cannot afford to set unrealistic goals. - Charles Burck
