Re: default remote shell in tramp

[Terrence Brannon]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Terrence Brannon <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:

Vinh Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried this before and I just tried it again.  Issue is the commands
> I'm looking for is in PATH that is defined in my .bashrc file on the
> remote machines.  Hence, I think the error is coming from the fact
> that /bin/sh is used (as the error states).
>
> I think the solution is to have tramp use bash on my remote machine.
> Does this make sense?

Yes. You could change the used remote shell in `tramp-methods' to
bash. If you, for example, use "ssh", you could apply

(setcdr (assoc 'tramp-remote-sh (assoc "ssh" tramp-methods)) '("/bin/bash"))

For some reason, that is not doing anything:

 

 

but it doesnt matter on the Linux system I'm using because "sh" is symlinked to "bash"