[Mongrel] Capistrano mongrel recipes and /usr/local/bin

[Jonathan Tron]

Le 9 juil. 07 à 18:06, Nicolas St-Laurent a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to deploy my application with Capistrano using Mongrel
> recipes. Since I've installed Ruby from source code, mongrel scripts
> are found in /usr/local/bin. But the recipes can't find
> mongrel_rails : "bash: mongrel_rails: command not found". The path of
> the user account used to deploy is OK. For sure, I can redefine
> start_mongrel_cluster/restart_mongrel_cluster/stop_mongrel_cluster
> tasks in the recipes to add path before calling mongrel_rails.
>
> Any idea of a better solution ?

I experienced the same problem, it comes from two things : sshd and  
capistrano.

SSHd (at least on Suse Linux Entreprise Servers 10.1) is compiled and  
configured to have a really basic path defined and  
PermitUserEnvironment set to "no", if you combined that with  
capistrano not using any environment variables, you get your problem.

One solution is to set PermitUserEnvironment to "yes" in sshd_config  
and use ~/.ssh/environment file to set a path containing your  
mongrel_rails command (in your deployment user home). But be aware  
there are some security risks setting this variable to "yes".

Hopes this help.

Tron Jonathan
http://jonathan.tron.name