From: Sean Hussey <seanhussey@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T05:51:07+09:00
Subject: Re: 'env ruby -v' returns nothing

Whoa.  Check this out.  On one of the "good" machines (some info snipped):

# /usr/bin/env
HOSTNAME=blah
TERM=xterm-color
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=100
SSH_CLIENT=::ffff:10.4.74.75 49771 22
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
USER=root
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/libexec:/root/bin
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/root
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
_=/usr/bin/env
#

Now, on the "bad" machine:

# /usr/bin/env
#

Huh?!

On 1/16/06, Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/16/06, Sean Hussey <seanhussey@gmail.com> wrote:
> > # /usr/bin/env ruby
> > # /usr/bin/env ruby -v
> > # which gem
> > /usr/local/bin/gem
> > # which ruby
> > /usr/local/bin/ruby
> >
> > Changing the shebang line in /usr/local/bin/gem to use
> > /usr/local/bin/ruby works as far as gem -v goes, but I'm afraid to use
> > it if I don't know what env vars it might use otherwise.
>
> It certainly does sound like an environment issue. My guess is the
> PATH doesn't include /usr/local/bin, but if you can run 'gem' that
> couldn't be it. Try running '/usr/bin/env' (without the 'ruby -v') on
> each machine. This prints out the current environment and you can
> compare to find the environment differences.
>
> Jacob Fugal
>
>