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Set terminal color without having bash history look wrong? [duplicate]
A site suggested I wrote the below to set the color of my terminal in `~/.bashrc
export PS1=`printf "\033[32m$ \033[39m"`
If I log in through ssh, press up, home, up text will be garbled.
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Detect SFTP Login And Perform A Web Request
I am running a SFTP server on Linux/Debian.
What I want is to detect when a user connects to the Server and then execute a bash script on the server in which I perform a web request.
In this web ...
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Debian 10 over SSH ignoring `DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive`
I am writing some scripts in order to install some things on a server running Debian 10.
This is the script:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
address=$1
ssh -T $address <<EOF > /dev/null
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SSH not passing LANG environment variable
I'm running a Debian server (uname -v output #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 (2017-12-23)). When I log in from any of several clients (macOS 10.13 laptop with default ssh, the "Prompt" app on iOS, among ...
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Bash: Failing to Capture Exit Code of Command executed Remotely via SSH
I am using OpenSSH and have the following bash script, named foo, on Debian 8 (Jessie) Linux:
#!/bin/bash
ssh [email protected] "$1"
if [[ $? ]]; then
echo "Pass"
else
echo "Fail"
fi
I am ...
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SSH - Ignoring $PS1 in .bashrc
Relevant file contents: http://pastebin.com/6VtWcaWG
Everything else including the aliases and the PATH variable are fine, but when I log in as root on my remote machine, the correct $PS1 (set in the ...
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Execute a script as root on every ssh login
Is there a possible way that I can execute a script, say abc.sh; as root user on every login to my system via SSH?
I've gone through a similar question which says to add the script execution to ....
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Bash terminal lacking functionality when running as non-root
I'm running a command-line Debian system, accessed via SSH through PuTTY, and am experiencing differing terminal functionality between root and other users.
When logging in as root, the terminal ...
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How can I resolve the error "cannot execute binary file"?
When I login using SSH, all I can see is this...
-bash: /usr/bin/id: cannot execute binary file
-bash: [: : integer expression expected
I couldn't do anything in here. Commands such as halt, ...
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managing ssh command in a bash loop
i've done a bash script like this
while read site address
do
ssh $address "df -k"
done
to repeat the remote command few times, but the loop works just once.
Any idea on the reason of this behavior?...
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