[PLUG] bash environment when ssh'ing?

Reid nrwahl at protonmail.com
Tue Jun 29 22:09:08 UTC 2021


Does your ~/.bash_profile not source ~/.bashrc? Mine (Fedora) does by default but maybe yours is different.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332531/why-does-remote-bash-source-bash-profile-instead-of-bashrc


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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, June 29, 2021 3:00 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:

> I noticed that my attempt to keep my shell history indefinitely was
> thwarted. My .bashrc has HISTFILESIZE=-1 and HISTSIZE=-1, but when I
> ssh in to the box and run "echo $HISTFILESIZE " I mysteriously get
> 500. I don't currently understand why and I have not yet dug into
> serious research yet.
>
> Does anyone happen to know?
>
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>
> Russell Senior
> russell at personaltelco.net





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