Re: Environment variables for remote processes

[andres.ramirez <andres.ramirez@kipuamutay.com>]

Hi guys this is  my case. I think it qualifies as as subprocess. I hope it helps to clarify some ideas:

* how I start emacs
It is started from a crontab and using daemon:
@reboot emacs --quick --daemon
** Notice: known condition emacs daemon issue with gtk (this gtk bug have years )
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
* What's the problem with emacs started before X?
 no 'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS' and other variables.
Test the condition with an external process notify-send (test the line below on eshell):
notify-send 'wellcome' 'Visit <a href="http://www.kipuamutay.com">kipuamutay</a>'
** enviroment variables from emacs started on cron job (very short)
COLUMNS=80
HOME=/home/aramirez
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LINES=34
LOGNAME=aramirez
OLDPWD=/home/aramirez/downloads
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/home/aramirez
SHELL=/bin/sh
SHLVL=1
TERM=dumb
USER=aramirez
XAUTHORITY=/home/aramirez/.Xauthority
_=/usr/bin/emacs
** enviroment variables from emacs started after X
ANT_HOME=/usr/share/apache-ant
CLASSPATH=/home/aramirez/GNUstep/Library/Libraries/Java:/usr/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/Java
COLUMNS=80
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-uxYK2KP5AO,guid=bde80a1c96d99a424bfa48eb546cacf2
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/aramirez/GNUstep/Library/Libraries/Guile:/usr/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/Guile
HOME=/home/aramirez
INFOPATH=/usr/share/info::/home/aramirez/GNUstep/Library/Documentation/info:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/aramirez/GNUstep/Library/Libraries:/usr/lib
LIBRARY_COMBO=gnu-gnu-gnu
LINES=34
LOGNAME=aramirez
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/aramirez
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
OLDPWD=/home/aramirez/downloads
PATH=/home/aramirez/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/usr/local/bin:/home/aramirez/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/aramirez/bin
PWD=/home/aramirez
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=5
TERM=dumb
USER=aramirez
WINDOWID=14680098
WINDOWPATH=1
XAUTHORITY=/home/aramirez/.Xauthority
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_ID=c1
XDG_VTNR=1
XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8
XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash
XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(312)
_=/usr/bin/emacs
* CONCLUSION: In this particular case. It should be possible to add the necessary environment variables for notify-send to work.
(dbus-init-bus my-dbus-address) is not enough

** This could be unrelated to this thread, but related to this case;when emacs is started from a cron job before X: gnupg validation is not possible
*** issue with this when restarting emacs remotely (GPG developers and the gui-popup 4 requesting the passphrase), when no X then no popup :(
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/169412

Best Regards