If you are running your script as a given user the script should
'inherit' the environment of the user that is is being run as. IF You
run as a daemon it should 'inherit' the environment of the user that
started the script. If your script issues a chroot command all bets are
off since.
To set the environment as I found, I think it was in the Perl Cook Book
as I am working on a few scripts both for pleasure and work I found
this: $ENV{PATH} = '/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin';
IMHO: It is always a good idea to set your scripts with a path that you
want them to have rather than trusting an 'inheritance' factor.
Also if your script is to be run by many, and possibly have a net
connection it would be a good idea to further restrict with chroot.
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Leif Ericksen
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 04:21 +0630, Mayank Ahuja wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Could you please let me know how to change the working directory
> withoutgoing under through settingthe path variable process.
>
> I am using the following code.
>
> use warnings;
>
> use strict;
>
> use Cwd;
>
> chdir ('/user/bin') or die can not change the directory.
>
> if there is only one way then let me know how do we set the variable
> $ENV{HOME}.
>
> With warm regards
>
> Mayank
>
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