[op-sepp] Inheriting the current environment into the SEPP compile shell

Frank Thommen frank.thommen at embl-heidelberg.de
Tue May 21 18:25:06 CEST 2013


Hi Tobi,

>> seppadm execs a shell (compile shell) w/o inheriting any environment
>> variables.  This creates problems on some buildhosts which require a
>> specific environment ($MODULESPATH, $MODULESHOME) which should be
>> inherited from the standard login environment.  These variables are not
>> always the same on all buildhosts.
>>
>> Where is the "cleanup" of the environment variables done and how can we
>> disable it?  SaneShell() doesn't seem to remove any existing variables,
>> just set some.  On the other hand, custom variables defined in "compile
>> env" are ignored.
>
> that would be the places where I would have looked ... also a
> /usr/sepp/conf/.cshrc file

/usr/sepp/conf/.cshrc was it:

unsetenv *

Thx
frank



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