.bashrc at ssh login

Question

When I ssh into my ubuntu-box running Hardy 8.04, the environment variables in my .bashrc are not set.

If I do a source .bashrc, the variab

Answer 1

I had similar situation like Hobhouse. I wanted to use command

 ssh myhost.com 'some_command'

and 'some_command' exists in '/var/some_location' so I tried to append '/var/some_location' in PATH environment by editing '$HOME/.bashrc'

but that wasn't working. because default .bashrc(Ubuntu 10.4 LTS) prevent from sourcing by code like below

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

so If you want to change environment for ssh non-login shell. you should add code above that line.