From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T03:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: .profile in UNIX

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Bob Smyph
<eric.ramsey@cbc-companies.com> wrote:
> Tim Greer wrote:
>>
>> How to you mean?  By updating it, parsing it from the file itself, or by
>> using finger, or?
>
> I believe we just need to load it into the session/channel so that we
> can use access/use command associated with the .profile
>
> We are trying to run a command through Ruby but it seems that we need
> certain environmental properties set (e.g. .profile) in order to do
> this. If we log onto the server through Putty this command works just
> fine.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

If your server is running OpenSSH, you can also use ~/.ssh/environment.

See sshd(8) for details, under the LOGIN PROCESS section:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8

-- 
Gerardo Santana