Re: environment variables and ssh logins

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn at spk dot agilent dot com>]

On 2008-04-17, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I have several environment variables defined in the Windows Control 
> Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System 
> Variables list on my Windows XP box.  If I run a Cygwin bash login 
> shell locally on this machine, I can find all those environment 
> variables in the output of the env command.  However, if I ssh to 
> the same machine, several of those environment variables are missing 
> from my environment.
> 
> For example, PATH is in both environments and is the same except for 
> the extra :/bin component in the ssh version, and "CYGWIN=ntsec" is 
> in both.  However, PYTHONPATH is in the local environment but not in 
> the ssh environment.
> 
> Why are some but not all the environment variables defined in the 
> System dialog inherited by ssh logins?

P.S.

Yes, I have rebooted since setting PYTHONPATH.

Gary


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/