not honouring HOME envvar, nor parsing own BIN directory

[twobob]

Am I missing something?

setting the PATH and then calling KTERM I only get the global envvars?

also - it's own BIN directory is not honoured/parsed....

Is there a BETTER way to call kterm???

[bfabiszewski]

Do you mean this? [root@kindle bin]# PATH=/mypath ./kterm

[twobob]

right. PATH=/mypath:$PATH ./kterm or PATH=/mypath ./kterm

That doesn't work. far as I can tell..

[bfabiszewski]

Maybe I don't understand what you are trying to achieve.

I start kterm with command: "PATH=/mypath ./kterm". Then in kterm echo $PATH would give "/mypath".

[twobob]

really?

let me try that again then...

[twobob]

no. That doesn't happen for me.? [root@kindle root]# PATH=/mnt/us/extensions/kterm/bin/ /mnt/us/extensions/kterm/bin/kterm

and the PATH with be the regular set.

confused.

[bfabiszewski]

I can't reproduce it. It works on my Kindle. Did you change default shell? What happens if you export the variable before starting kterm:

[root@kindle root]# export PATH=/test
[root@kindle root]# /mnt/us/extensions/kterm/bin/kterm

[twobob]

I'll try that then.

and as far as I know nothing has been changed.

[bfabiszewski]

Or maybe you test it running the script from KUAL? Java environment overrides some env vars. See this post and read whole discussion