[SOLVED] bashrc - alias not working

[Joseph_sys]

When I login to my other machine via "ssh" and type one of my alias command "ll" it is not taking effect.

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.bashrc
...
alias ll="ls --color -l"
...

When I login to my other machine this alias works OK, what did I miss in setup?

[John R. Graham]

Logging in as root? Bet you'll find that ~/.bash_profile doesn't exist. If not, copy it from /etc/skel:

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cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile ~/

and I think your problem will be solved.

- John

[Joseph_sys]

Logging in as root? Bet you'll find that ~/.bash_profile doesn't exist. If not, copy it from /etc/skel:

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cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile ~/

and I think your problem will be solved.

- John

Thanks, but no it doesn't work. I have in /root/.bashrc

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alias ll="ls --color -l"
...

When I log in to the computer from the console attached to it "ll" alias work both as user and root
but when I login over 'ssh' it doesn't work in either case.

Does "ssh" user have to have certain setting enable in sshd_conf

[John R. Graham]

I don't believe so. Could you post the output of

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ls -ad /root/.bash*

please?

- John

[Joseph_sys]

I don't believe so. Could you post the output of

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ls -ad /root/.bash*

please?

- John

Here it is:

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ls -ad /root/.bash*
/root/.bash_history  /root/.bashrc

complete bashrc in /root/

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# /etc/skel/.bashrc:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/skel/.bashrc,v 1.8 2003/02/28 15:45:35 azarah Exp $

# This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup.  This
# file *should generate no output* or it will break the scp and rcp commands.

# colors for ls, etc.
eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias d="ls --color"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias ll="ls --color -l"
set -o noclobber

# are we an interactive shell?
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    case $TERM in
        xterm*)
            PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
    esac
    [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
fi

# Change the window title of X terminals 
case $TERM in
	xterm*|rxvt|Eterm|eterm)
		PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
		;;
	screen)
		PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\"'
		;;
esac

##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion:
[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion

I'm puzzled as well as I have two system that I login over ssh with the same bashrc alliases and on one system "ll" over ssh login work on the other it doesn't; and I don't know why?

[titanofold]

I've found that I actually have to use .bash_login for anything special. .bashrc just doesn't work as advised.

[John R. Graham]

@Joseph_sys, you didn't do what I asked. Please copy /etc/skel/.bash_profile to /root:

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cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile /root

and then try your ssh login again.

@Titanfold, every created user gets a copy of /etc/skel in their ~/ except root which is created by catalyst in the process of making the stage tarball. For some reason, catalyst doesn't make (or, perhaps, preserve; I'm not sure) this copy. The default ~/.bash_profile is designed to make the behavior of various login methods uniform by sourcing ~/.bashrc under the right circumstances. I lost the argument a few years ago to get this minor discrepancy corrected; I'll see if I can't dig up the mailing list thread to post as a reference.

- John

[Joseph_sys]

Hmm... I just did that: cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile /root
Log OUT/IN but it still doesn't work :-/ I'm puzzled why.
I don't have this bash_profile in root directory on my other system and alases work over ssh login

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ls -ad /root/.bash*
/root/.bash_history  /root/.bash_profile  /root/.bashrc

[titanofold]

Hmm... I just did that: cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile /root
Log OUT/IN but it still doesn't work :-/ I'm puzzled why.
I don't have this bash_profile in root directory on my other system and alases work over ssh login

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ls -ad /root/.bash*
/root/.bash_history  /root/.bash_profile  /root/.bashrc

Give .bash_login a go.

[John R. Graham]

Hmm... I just did that: cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile /root
Log OUT/IN but it still doesn't work :-/ I'm puzzled why.

Hmm indeed. Let me check some obvious things:

• You're trying to log in as root to the machine where this doesn't work, right? If not, then what user?
• Could you post the machine's "emerge --info"?

- John

[Joseph_sys]

Hmm indeed. Let me check some obvious things:

• You're trying to log in as root to the machine where this doesn't work, right? If not, then what user?
• Could you post the machine's "emerge --info"?

- John

I have on a remote machine the same home directory /home/joseph
so I log in: $ ssh 10.0.0.100 (as user) bash alias "ll" doesn't work

If I enable in sshd_config (root login)
and I login to the remote machine as root: ssh root@10.0.0.100
bash aliase "ll" works.

Here is emerge info:

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emerge --info
Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.1.5-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.1.5-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8150_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.6-r4
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.0.3
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.21.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.13-r4
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA googleearth PUEL dlj-1.1 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -Os -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9 --load-average=8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync16.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cgi cli consolekit consolkit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gdu gif gimp gimpprint gpm gtk iconv ipv6 java jpeg lcms ldap libnotify lock mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support readline scanner sdl session spache2 spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetexspell thunar tiff truetype trutype type1 udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Joseph_sys]

Give .bash_login a go.

What do you mean, How?

[John R. Graham]

Does ~/.bash_profile exist for the user? If not, do the same thing I instructed above, but for the user's home directory.

Titanfold means to put what you normally put in .bashrc into .bash_login as well. However, this is not as clean a solution as getting your configuration right.

- John

[Joseph_sys]

Does ~/.bash_profile exist for the user? If not, do the same thing I instructed above, but for the user's home directory.

Titanfold means to put what you normally put in .bashrc into .bash_login as well. However, this is not as clean a solution as getting your configuration right.

- John

Thanks folks, it is SOLVED
Somehow, when the system user was created the .bash_profile was not copied to home user directory.
The reason could be that I created user: joseph first and then realized that I did not created home directory so I repeated the process again but some home the got missed.

Thanks again.

[John R. Graham]

Whew! Good. That can happen if you mistakenly omit the -m (--create-home) option to the useradd command when making your additional users. Glad to help.

- John

[Joseph_sys]

Whew! Good. That can happen if you mistakenly omit the -m (--create-home) option to the useradd command when making your additional users. Glad to help.

- John

Thanks, that exactly happed what you describe. When I created user, I forgot to add "-m" switch.

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[Suicidal]

For things like aliases I create a bash script and drop it in /etc/profile.d/ so it is global.