From: Rodrigo Bermejo <rodrigo.bermejo@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T02:47:04+09:00
Subject: Re: .profile in UNIX

Bob Smyph wrote:
> 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?

You can 'source' the .profile in your ssh session doing a:
cmd=". /home/user/.profile"

note the space after the dot.

Regards.
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