various fixes and mail improvements

[distro-setup] / .bashrc

diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index 097dd9859413d0f9c5640e12908726d579bfdd29..53e4138d07b1ae1ba1e2fdacee445da6360a7491 100644 (file)
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -38,19 +38,17 @@
 # which we could test for, but I can't think of a way to make that
 # inherently limited to a single ssh command.  I choose to set SendEnv
 # and AcceptEnv ssh config vars to allow the environment variable
-# BASH_LOGIN_SHELL to propagate across ssh.
+# BASH_LOGIN_SHELL to propagate across ssh. This also requires that we
+# wrap ssh in interactive shells, because, once we export the var, it
+# will go into scripts and theres no way to automatically set it.
 
-# assume we want ssh commands to source this file if we are sourcing it,
-# and we haven't specified otherwise already
-[[ ! $BASH_LOGIN_SHELL ]] && export BASH_LOGIN_SHELL=true
-#BASH_LOGIN_SHELL=false # temporary override
 
 # first conditions show that we are an ssh command without an interactive shell
 if [[ $SSH_CONNECTION ]] \
        && [[ $- == *c* ]] \
        && [[ ! $SSH_TTY ]] \
        && [[ $- != *i* ]] \
-       && [[ ! $BASH_LOGIN_SHELL == true ]]; then
+       && [[ $BASH_LOGIN_SHELL != true ]]; then
     return 0
 else
     if [[ -r /etc/profile ]]; then