[Koha-devel] Environment variables

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At 09:33 PM 8/27/2012 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:

>/etc/environment is a better place for those vars. Note  that a single 
>koha install on the same box is not the only use case.

Then how do you make them user specific?  Or should Zebra *not* be 
'user=koha' specific?

Best - Paul


>Regards
>To+
>El ago 27, 2012 9:16 p.m., "Paul" 
><<mailto:paul.a at aandc.org>paul.a at aandc.org> escribió:
>I'm in the process of comparing the Wiki page 
><<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu>http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu> 
>with my own notes and am wondering if I am missing a "bigger picture" 
>although I'm pretty sure my findings (3.8.4 on 12.04.1) are reliable.
>
>The Wiki suggests editing  /etc/cron.d/koha  to include 
>KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml, KOHAPATH=/usr/share/koha and 
>PERL5LIB=$KOHAPATH/lib --- then "Alternatively you could ..." edit
>/etc/bash.bashrc.local to export KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB
>
>I have found on 3.6 and 3.8 you must (rather than "alternatively could") 
>add the two export lines to /home/koha/.bashrc [1] -- if not the variables 
>are lost on reboot and the cron will fail (C4 not found.)
>
>The /etc/cron.d/koha does not need the env vars:
>
>paul at server: cat /etc/cron.d/koha
>*/1 * * * *    koha    
>$KOHAPATH/bin/migration_tools/<http://rebuild_zebra.pl>rebuild_zebra.pl -a 
>-b -z &> /dev/null
>
>My notes:
>
>CONCLUSION:
>3.8.4: cataloguing and zebra incremental cron fully functional.
>To renew PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib and 
>KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml after reboot, the 'export' must be in 
>/home/koha/.bashrc; also /etc/cron.d/koha does not require any $ENV statements
>
>Am I missing something?
>
>tnx - paul
>
>[1] I tried all combinations of env vars in /home/koha/.bashrc and 
>/etc/bash.bashrc.local, plus env vars or not in cron. I was a little 
>surprised that the /etc/bash.bashrc.local did *not* restore the env vars 
>to koha after reboot. Â Could someone running Debian Squeeze let me know 
>if this is a Ubuntu or more general *deb problem? Â Or if there is a way 
>of forcing 'local' to recognize user=koha?
>
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