On 2008-04-17, Gary Johnson wrote: > I have several environment variables defined in the Windows Control > Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System > Variables list on my Windows XP box. If I run a Cygwin bash login > shell locally on this machine, I can find all those environment > variables in the output of the env command. However, if I ssh to > the same machine, several of those environment variables are missing > from my environment. > > For example, PATH is in both environments and is the same except for > the extra :/bin component in the ssh version, and "CYGWIN=ntsec" is > in both. However, PYTHONPATH is in the local environment but not in > the ssh environment. > > Why are some but not all the environment variables defined in the > System dialog inherited by ssh logins?
P.S. Yes, I have rebooted since setting PYTHONPATH. Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
