Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The following has been tried on OpenSUSE 10.2 and Mac OS X 10.4.11. > > When run by sshd, bash doesn't behave consistently: > 1. bash sources the init files when one uses "ssh <host> <cmd>". > 2. bash doesn't do that when one uses "ssh -t <host> <cmd>".
Bash does 1 if (and only if) it can detect it's being run with its stdin connected to a socket. `ssh -t' intentionally defeats that. There is other checking that SSH_SOURCE_BASHRC enables: looking for SSH_CLIENT or SSH2_CLIENT. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/