bashrc and .profile for password-less ssh

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:41:55AM -0500, shantanu pavgi wrote:
> I am having some issue in executing in setting values in .bashrc file on ssh
> based command execution. If I log in using SSH then bashrc is sourced and
> settings in it work.  But following doesn't work and returns no value:
> {{{
> inode:~ shantanu$ ssh 192.168.174.129 "echo $CATALINA_HOME"
> }}}

Interactive shells are different:

  * they don't read .profile
  * they read .bashrc, but your bashrc returns early:

> ****** And here is .bashrc file:
> 
> {{{
> shantanu at ubox:~$ cat .bashrc
> # ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
> # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
> # for examples
> 
> # If not running interactively, don't do anything
> [ -z "$PS1" ] && return

There.

Move your variable definition above that line and it will be used both
for interactive and non-interactive shell sessions.

Marius Gedminas
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