[Bradford] problem with alias

[Martyn Ranyard]

Hi Wayne,

hmm... this sounds suspiciously like a .profile vs .bashrc thing.
I hate trying to work it out (especially at this kind of time when I
couldn't sleep) but a google for .profile vs .bashrc did come up with some
interesting links, most immediately clear was this one :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/etcprofile-v.s.-etcbashrc-273992/

Are you sure that you haven't set the aliases in both locations for some of
the machines and only one location for the others?

Just my insomniac instinct, might be way off because of lack of sleep but
thought I'd share it.

--
Martyn

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Wayne Hanley <wayney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a random issue with my .profile just wondering if anyone might
> have any suggestions as what is going on.
>
> What the problem is is that I have some aliases set up as follows
>
> alias kong='ssh admin at kong'
> alias invader='ssh admin at invader'
> alias percy='ssh phluidity at percy'
> alias merlin='ssh phluidity at merlin'
>
> I also have corresponding entries in /etc/hosts on my local machine to the
> machines, the ip's of which are a mixture of local and remote addresses.
> The random part is that my hosts file is fine, I can browse to the the
> machines via hostname or do a simple "ping hostname" and that confirms that
> the right ip's are mapped to the right names so I am almost certain there
> is
> nothing wrong with that side of things.
>
> So then a simple command of "kong" or "Invader" (both of these are remote
> machines off my local network ergo have realworld ip's mapped to the host
> names locally) presents me with a password prompt as you would expect this
> good.
>
> Doing so with either percy or merlin however gives me a "command not found"
> error.  OK the first time I had edited my .profile so I reload it with ".
> .profile" no problem try again and all is fine, all four of the aliases
> work.  Closing that terminal session and then opening another however
> yields
> the same problem, I can ping the host names of all four machine and I get
> the correct IP's responding, but entering just the aliases only kong and
> invader work, percy and merlin give me the same command not found!  doing a
> quick ". .profile" again solves the problem for the duration of that shell
> session.  The problem is persistent between reboots but only for percy and
> merlin, invader and kong work fine!
>
> I have no other conflicting aliases in my .profile I've stripped it back to
> a virgin .profile with no other custom additions to it and still the
> problem
> persists! adding another alias to a IP rather than a hostname gives the
> same
> problem changing the string to ssh -l etc gives the same problem also but
> works fine for invader and kong :/
>
> I've tried with several different terminal emulators also just in case.
>  I'm
> using Ubuntu 9.04 on the machine showing the problem and all of the servers
> are running Ubuntu server 8.04lts.  Trying to connect with another alias to
> a non ubuntu distro gives the same problem, I have tested this with aliases
> to debian and slackware boxes.
>
> Granted it is not a issue I've got around it by running . .profile every
> time I open a shell and yeah I can automate this, I would like to get to
> the
> bottom of the issue though just out of interest.  Any idea's or suggestions
> as to why this could be happening or how to get around it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Wayne
>
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