Re: [help-gnubatch] Force reload env

[Sun Ray]

We were doing symlink before and we specifically switched from symlink to
environment variables for various reasons.

I want to bring the discussion back to GNUbatch. Can it reload env
variables or not?
Can somebody help?

Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Reuti <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Am 28.01.2016 um 22:19 schrieb Sun Ray:
>
> > GNU batch calls my_script. It needs to know where the script is.
> >
> > I am sourcing .bashrc before calling my_script from gnu batch. But I
> don't want to do that.
>
> Yep. Before starting GNU batch you adjust the $PATH to include
> /product/recent. The symbolic link /product/recent will point to the actual
> version it should find and can be adjusted when a new version is available.
> No need to reload any environment.
>
> BTW: for documentation reason you might want to include a line in your
> script like:
>
> echo $(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
>
> which will output the physical path, not the symbolic one, and so it's
> clear what version of the script was used for this run.
>
> -- Reuti
>
>
> > I want gnubatch to reload.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Reuti <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 28.01.2016 um 18:38 schrieb Sun Ray:
> >
> > > The path to the scripts that are run from GNU batch changes with every
> release.
> > >
> > > For example, the script could be in /product/release.1/bin/myscript
> and with another release next day, the script needs to be sourced from
> /product/release.2/bin/myscript.
> > >
> > > $MY_SCRIPT_PATH=/product/release.1 today and it changes to
> $MY_SCRIPT_PATH=/product/release.2 next day.
> > >
> > > So how do I force GNUbatch to find the right script path. This is
> affecting us in production right now and any input is much appreciated.
> >
> > I can't test it with your particular set up, but what about handling it
> outside of GNU batch by having a path pointing to:
> >
> > MY_SCRIPT_PATH=/product/recent
> >
> > and recent is a symbolic link to the actual directory. After release.2
> is tested, you can `ln -sfT release.2 recent` to adjust it.
> >
> > -- Reuti
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Reuti <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > Am 28.01.2016 um 03:24 schrieb Sun Ray <address@hidden>:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to force GNUBatch to reload the env variables
> everytime it
> > > > runs a scheduled job. I would like GNUBatch to source and reload
> .bashrc.
> > > > Please let me know.
> > >
> > > just for curiosity: what's the rationale behind it?
> > >
> > > -- Reuti
> > >
> >
> >
>
>