rsync -avP /home/user/.profile hpux3:/home/user/.profile
bash: rsync: command not found
If I did ssh to hpux3 machine
rsync
version 3.1.1 protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2014 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
output truncated
I have set PATH
in $HOME/.profile
and $HOME/.bashrc
. Should I set it in the /etc/profile
file?
Best Answer
Your
.profile
is only read when you log in interactively. When rsync connects to another machine to execute a command,/etc/profile
and~/.profile
are not read.If your login shell is bash, then
~/.bashrc
may be read (this is a quirk of bash —~/.bashrc
is read by non-login interactive shells, and in some circumstances by login non-interactive shells). This doesn't apply to all versions of bash though.The easiest way to make rsync work is probably to pass the
--rsync-path
option, e.g.If you log in over SSH with key-based authentication, you can set the
PATH
environment variable via your~/.ssh/authorized_keys
. See sh startup files over ssh for explanations of how to arrange to load.profile
when logging in over SSH with a key.