adding PATH in /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile but not showing via SSH [duplicate]

Question

on Centos 6.x,

I am adding some path export PATH=$PATH:/some/path

in both /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile

but if it's not effective when I login via SSH

it only shows if I type source .bash_profile

What am I doing wrong?

(N.B. for logging via SSH I use the following alias: alias ssh-server='ssh -t user@server "cd /some/dir/ ; bash")

Answer 1

The reason your /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile are not read is that you are not using an interactive login shell. A “normal” login, e.g. via

ssh myserver

creates an interactive login shell, in contrast to executing commands provided as argument to ssh, which use a non-login shell. An interactive non-login bash reads the files /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.

If you want to change the directory for interactive login shells, add your cd /some/dir to one of the following files. The first one found, is being processed, the others are ignored.

~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile

If your user name or host name is too long to type, create an alias in ~/.ssh/config:

Host server
HostName me.and.my.server.somedomain.tld
User daniele