Re: Environment for the www-data user during post-commit.

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 01:59 +0100, Teo Romera wrote:
> El mié, 05-01-2005 a las 11:18 -0600, kfogel@collab.net escribió:
>
> > Why not just set the environment variables to whatever you want, in
> > the hook script? Or, just source the www-data user's init files?
>
> There must be something else that is different when we launch the script
> from a shell from when a client commits. But what?

You tell us!
What does this command do? Run it as the same user apache runs as:

    $ env -i /path/to/hook-script [args]

In case you are not familiar with `env`, man env says:

       -i, --ignore-environment
              start with an empty environment

Cheers,
Chris

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