path environment variables and ssh

[Ted Pavlic]

Try this. Create a file on your remote machine:

~/.ssh/environment

where "~" is your home directory and ".ssh" is a directory immediately 
underneath it. In that "environment" file, put a line

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:

or something similar. Then try.

 From the ssh man page, I KNOW that ssh will set environment variables 
out of that file. However, I'm not sure if you can override PATH via it. 
(IIRC, you can)

--Ted


James Walker wrote:
> Hi.  I'm new to mercurial, and I haven't been able to figure out where 
> to define environment variables such that they will be seen by an ssh 
> remote command to a server running Mac OS X 10.4.  For instance it's not 
> ~/.profile, which works if I log in interactively.  This caused a 
> mercurial command with an ssh URL to fail because it couldn't find hg on 
> the server.  I got around that problem by using my local .hgrc file to 
> set the remote command to /usr/local/bin/hg.  But now I'm wondering 
> about the PYTHONPATH.  If the server's hg were using python 2.3.5 (which 
> comes standard with Mac OS X 10.4) rather than python 2.5.1 (which I 
> installed), would there be an error message, or would it just run 
> suboptimally?
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