[Zope] Simple Question about PATH environment variable

[Chris McDonough]

An extrnal method that does the following should do the trick:

import os
return os.environ['PATH']


Paul Merrill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm doing some content creation for a Zope site and have run into a 
> problem with the PATH variable but need some help.
> 
> Our system admin has installed zope in the /usr/share/Zope directory and 
> created an init script on the Mandrake System it runs on
> to start Zope when the system boots. All very standard and works fine. I 
> can access the site with the /manage extension to the url.
> 
> I have installed DocumentLibrary1.0b3, as downloaded from www.zope.org, 
> and downloaded wvWare from www.wvWare.com so
> that I can search MSWord files that I stick in the library. wvWare seems 
> to work fine if I login to the system with ssh and execute wvWare from 
> the bash command prompt in my home directory.
> 
> Now, wvWare is located in /usr/local/bin/wvWare and I when I try and 
> search for text that I know is in one of the files, nothing is found. I 
> have a similar install of Zope on my home PC and it works there BUT at 
> home I start Zope from my bash shell (./start &), thus 'which wvWare' 
> returns /usr/local/bin/wvWare because the PATH contains /usr/local/bin.
> 
> I'm thinking that for some reason the production site cannot find wvWare 
> in the /usr/local/bin directory because the PATH environment variable 
> has not been set properly since the Zope server is started at system 
> startup and not from a user login.
> 
> Now for the questions.
> 
> Can someone give me a dtml or python snip of code to dump the PATH 
> variable to see what it is? Assuming it's wrong, where would one modify 
> the PATH variable so that it could find the wvWare executable? 
> Alternatively, would it make more sense to modify the DocumentLibrary 
> code so that the total path /usr/local/bin/wvWare is referenced from 
> Python?
> 
> Finally, lets assume nothing above works. What I'd like to do is add 
> some debugging code to the Python code to dump out the input parameters 
> and output results. What's the best approach given that starting Zope 
> from the python debugger is a problem since the site is already running? 
> Is it possible to create a trace file in /tmp that I could shoot some 
> text to and then SSH to the machine and "moreing" the /tmp file? I was 
> thinking of just modifying the appropriate .py file in DocumentLibrary, 
> deleting .pyc and letting Zope figure out the rest (like re-compiling) 
> when I referenced the code.
> 
> Ideas please would be appreciated.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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