From: Bob Smyph <eric.ramsey@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T03:56:18+09:00
Subject: Re: .profile in UNIX

Tim Greer wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I got you.  I read the post too quickly and for some reason I
> thought you said .plan (I should have known that sounded strange).
> Indeed, the .profile is only set to work with shell, in the shell env,
> which is why CGI, web server APIs/modules and rails don't read it.  Did
> you need to set any environments or did you want to emulate or somehow
> use the shell vars naturally (assuming you can trust the
> user's .profile)?

If the only way to get this to work is to set the environment/variables 
or emulate them somehow in the Ruby script, that is what we will need to 
do. Any idea as how to do this?
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