From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T03:25:57+09:00
Subject: Re: .profile in UNIX

On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Rodrigo Bermejo wrote:
> 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.


Read the docs about the intended use and behavior of ~/.profile or  
~/.login or ~/.bash_login compared to ~/.bashrc

It's probably in the INVOCATION section of the manual for your shell.


-Rob

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