setting environment for bash running via cygserver

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 9/9/2011 1:44 PM, Alan Sinclair wrote:
> Where can I set environment variables which will be available in a
> bash script running under cygserver?
>
> I need to ssh onto a remote cygserver and run bash scripts. RSA keys
> are all set up so no password is needed and I can ssh onto the target
> machine just fine by doing
>      ssh me@machine bash ~/myscript.sh ARGS
>
> But myscript.sh is not getting the environment it needs. For example,
> the script needs PROGRAMFILES, and also needs PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432
> set in the environment on 64-bit OS.

Best to put them in a file you can source when you SSH into the other
machine.  For the case above, you could then source that in your script
or in some appropriate rc file if "SSH_CLIENT" is set in your environment.

-- 
Larry

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