Re: ssh and PATH trouble
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Ramin Motakef wrote
> Hi everybody!
>
> I have some troble with ssh. I want to restart (or reload) services in
> /etc/init.d from a perl script. But what happens is:
>
> root@nase[/root]# ssh -x vmdebian /etc/init.d/nfs-server reload
> Reloading NFS servers configuration files.
> /etc/init.d/nfs-server: start-stop-daemon: command not found
>
> So i did:
>
> root@nase[/root]# ssh -x vmdebian echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
>
> wich seems ok for me.
>
Well, it would. The shell you are running on nase expands variables in your
commands before they are executed; what you are seeing is the value of the
PATH variable on nase. This will show the path on vmdebian:
# ssh -x vmdebian echo \$PATH
John P.
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