[systemd-devel] machinectl shell .bashrc

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

By default `machinectl shell` runs the user's shell with the "login" flag,
exactly as during console or SSH logins. For Bash, that means it will look
for ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile *instead of* ~/.bashrc.

Usually people have a ~/.bash_profile that sets up "once per session"
things if any, then manually sources ~/.bashrc (with the '.' or 'source'
command) as Bash never does do so automatically.

The same applies to global configs; Bash in login mode will read
/etc/profile, but not /etc/bash.bashrc unless the latter is explicitly
sourced (e.g. Arch's /etc/profile has an "if [ "$BASH" ]; then .
/etc/bash.bashrc; fi").

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:09 AM LuKaRo <lists at lrose.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> somehow, when using machinectl shell to access my nspawn containers, my
> .bashrc is ignored, although bash is correctly used as my shell. However,
> when specifying /bin/bash explicitly, the .bashrc gets sourced correctly.
> Any ideas?
>
> *lukas at home*:*~*$ sudo machinectl shell x11
> Connected to machine x11. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session.
> [root at x11 ~]# echo $HISTFILESIZE; echo $0;
> 500
> /bin/bash
> [root at x11 ~]#
> logout
> Connection to machine x11 terminated.*lukas at home*:*~*$ sudo machinectl shell x11 /bin/bash
> Connected to machine x11. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session.*root at x11*:*~*# echo $HISTFILESIZE; echo $0;
>
> /bin/bash*root at x11*:*~*#
> exit
> Connection to machine x11 terminated.*lukas at home*:*~*$
>
> Thanks,
> lukaro
>


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Mantas Mikulėnas
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