Re: passing environment variables through to screen

2012-07-04 Thread Mark Diekhans
Thanks for the response. In case this hits anyone else, the problem is this is a Linux security measure due to screen being setgid. This seems Linux-specifc in the system and specific to TMPDIR and certain other environments variables. See below. It's mentioned here: https://bugzilla

Re: passing environment variables through to screen

2012-07-03 Thread Kevin Van Workum
As far as I know, screen behaves like any other process and inherits its environment. So invoking screen as follows should work, if not, then you have some other problems. TMPDIR=/some/dir screen On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Mark Diekhans wrote: > > Is there a way to cause screen to pass th

passing environment variables through to screen

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Diekhans
Is there a way to cause screen to pass through environment variables when invoked? My particular problem is TMPDIR, which varies on different systems we have. Thanks! ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis