path environment variables and ssh

[James Walker]

Christian Ebert wrote:
> * James Walker on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 19:30:22 -0700
>> 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?
> 
> I believe what you want can be done in hgweb(dir).cgi.

Web?  Cgi?  It sounds like that would relate to accessing mercurial by 
http, not ssh.

> 
> I force the use of Python 2.5 over the Mac shipped Python by
> changing the bang in hgwebdir.cgi to point to the 2.5 executable:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> 
> This has the advantage that you don't have to fiddle with
> $PYTHONPATH for the server.
> 
> If you look at hgweb(dir).cgi you'll see also how you can change
> environment vars, and even $PYTHONPATH.
> 
> c