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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
To: Tim Shadel <timshadel@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: sshd, plink, bash and path problems
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Tim Shadel wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >>>2. Is there a file (.rc something-or-other perhaps?) that I can create
> >>>that will make the "source /etc/profile" call once plink connects, so I
> >>>can have the right path when <command> happens?
> >
> >Well, you can tell ssh to invoke a login shell (e.g., "ssh a@b bash -l -c
> >'commands'").  I don't know about plink.
>
> plink also allows commands to be run.  That "bash -l -c 'commands'"
> works great.  I see if there's any way to change the code to use it, but
> that solves my problem.
>
> [snip]
> >This has nothing to do with Cygwin.  This is pure shell stuff.
>
> I guess I didn't know the original PATH was the windows one.  That makes
> more sense now.  So I'd see the same thing on a Linux box using pure
> ssh.  If the PATH were changed by /etc/profile, and I didn't use the
> "bash -l -c 'commands'" stuff to force a bash login, then I wouldn't see
> the new PATH there either.
>
> I assume that the only way to 'source /etc/profile' requires a change to
> the content after "ssh a@b".  For example, '"ssh a@b bash -l -c
> 'commands'" and "ssh a@b source /etc/profile; commands" both work for
> me.  I only wish I could "ssh a@b commands" and have it work.  I've got
> the info I need to figure out a different solution, though.  Thanks!

If you set up your variables in ~/.bashrc instead of /etc/profile, that
should get executed on every bash invocation (assuming your remote shell
is "bash").
	Igor
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