Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > On 9/9/2011 1:44 PM, Alan Sinclair wrote: > > Where can I set environment variables which will be available in a > > bash script running under cygserver? > > > > I need to ssh onto a remote cygserver and run bash scripts. RSA keys > > are all set up so no password is needed and I can ssh onto the target > > machine just fine by doing > > ssh me <at> machine bash ~/myscript.sh ARGS > > > > But myscript.sh is not getting the environment it needs. For example, > > the script needs PROGRAMFILES, and also needs PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 > > set in the environment on 64-bit OS. > > Best to put them in a file you can source when you SSH into the other > machine. For the case above, you could then source that in your script > or in some appropriate rc file if "SSH_CLIENT" is set in your environment. > Thanks. Sourcing a file seems a usable approach. (I'm fairly new to cygwin and unix in general). SSH_CLIENT is set (and SSH_CONNECTION too) but I don't understand how to use that in reading an rc file. When "myscript.sh" records the environment by doing "env > myfile", I can see that "USER=me" and "HOME=/home/me" both have expected values (though "USERNAME=cyg_server") so I can use HOME to locate the file to source. I had thought that /home/me/.bash_profile gets read when starting a non-login shell, so tried to export variables there, but I must be misunderstanding something. The environment my script gets via ssh is different than I get when logged in via ssh, which is different again from when I'm logged in directly on the computer, and I'd like to understand why. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
