Re: SSH and apt-get problem
--- Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> * Matthew H. Ray (matthewhray@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> > I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've
> run
> > into problems running apt-get with SSH. While trying to install
> > packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting apt-get
> > problems, so I tried it with just ssh on the individual machines.
> It
> > appears that SSH is losing it's knowledge of the PATH while
> executing.
> > I used ssh-keygen so I wouldn't have to do logins (thus no password
> > request).
> >
> > root@farnsworth # ssh larry "echo $PATH; apt-get install rdate"
> >
[snip]
> Try adding "PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" to
> /root/.ssh/environment.
>
> Dima
That solves the problem. Looking at the man page for ssh and the
output of the echo $PATH, it seems like it shouldn't have been losing
the PATH information like that. It's just odd that some commands
worked but apt-get install didn't (apt-get update did).
Thanks,
Matthew H. Ray
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