[PLUG] bash environment when ssh'ing?

[Russell Senior]

It probably requires a careful reading of the bash manpage, which,
briefly, distinguishes between "login", "interactive" and
"non-interactive" shells. I have not done the careful reading.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:25 AM Ken Stephens <kennethgstephens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone give a brief explanation of what happens between .bashrc,
> .bash_login, and .bash_profile and how they play together?
>
> signed,
> confused.
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 7:00 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > More information, this is an Ubuntu 20.04 box, though I don't remember
> > if I installed fresh or updated from 16.04. My /etc/passwd line says
> > /bin/bash. My .bash_profile does *NOT* source .bashrc, but .bash_login
> > does. Including the source .bashrc in .bash_profile fixes it.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 5:40 PM Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I had something similar on a Centos 7 system and found that my login
> > shell
> > > was /bin/sh.
> > > Even though /bin/sh was linked to bash, it acted more like a Bourne shell
> > > and wasn't acting on my .bashrc or .bash_profile.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 3:09 PM Reid <nrwahl at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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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> > > >
> >