rsh environment

[Mike Khaw]

<49 at rpi.edu>, by kyriazis at rpics (George Kyriazis):
+ In article <15215 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
+>
+>4BSD's `rsh' remote shell (not restricted shell) runs the login user's
+>shell.  If that shell is a `csh', it reads ~/.cshrc under the usual
+>restrictions for `csh -c' commands.
+>
+ 
+ then can you tell me why when I do   'rsh localhost ph'
+ where ph is my alias for 'ps aux | head' it says  'ph: Command not found' ??
+ I set up my aliases in my .cshrc.   Also when I do    rsh localhost alias
+ it doesn't show anything.  If I do rsh localhost printenv  it just shows
+ 4 shell variabls and not the tons I usually have.  Any ideas?

If you do "rsh localhost set" you will probably find that "term" and
"prompt" are not set.  So it looks like an rsh command runs a csh that
doesn't think it's an interactive shell (sorta makes sense).  Your
.cshrc probably contains tests for $prompt and/or $term being set.
Move the aliases, etc., that you want available to rsh commands outside
the test clause.

Disclaimer:  I get this behavior on Ultrix 2.2 and SunOS 3.x; your
environment may differ.

Mike Khaw
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