X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E6A820A.5020904@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:15:54 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setting environment for bash running via cygserver References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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@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. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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