I have server on DigitalOcean and I use fabric for deploying my code. And my code is dependent on environment variables (flask config). I've faced one strange trouble today: on server in /root/.bashrc I've added next line
export CONFIG=/path/to/conf
And when I executing on remote console
>>> echo $CONFIG
>>> /path/to/conf # result, as it should be
But in fabfile I have a function
def show():
run("echo $CONFIG")
And it prints an empty string. WHY?
Thanks in advance!
This shouldn't be the case, as by default Fabric uses the -l
flag which is supposed to Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login shell (see INVOCATION below).
I am also not able to reproduce your issue:
$ fab -H home test_bash
[home] Executing task 'test_bash'
[home] run: grep FOO $HOME/.bashrc
[home] out: export FOO="BAR"
[home] out:
[home] run: echo $FOO
[home] out: BAR
[home] out:
So my guess is that you've changed the env.shell
, or that you're not connecting as the root
user which is where you're setting this bash export. (Note that run()
isn't the same a sudo()
in Fabric usage)