env variables

[Jeff VA2SS]

Hi,

I might be missing something here, but when I try to change PAT env variables, it does not works here.... I'm trying to change the default values.

I am running 0.16 on my Mac, and when set... I added theses lines in my .zprofile

export PAT_MAILBOX_PATH="~/Documents/PAT/pat_config/mailbox"
export PAT_CONFIG_PATH="~/Documents/PAT/pat_config/config.json"
export PAT_LOG_PATH=~/Documents/PAT/pat_config/pat.log
export PAT_EVENTLOG_PATH=~/Documents/PAT/pat_config/eventlog.json
export PAT_FORMS_PATH=~/Documents/PAT/pat_config/Standard_Forms

When opening a new terminal window and do a export to check... there are persistent...

PAT_CONFIG_PATH=~/Documents/PAT/pat_config/config.json
PAT_EVENTLOG_PATH=/Users/va2ss/Documents/PAT/pat_config/eventlog.json
PAT_FORMS_PATH=/Users/va2ss/Documents/PAT/pat_config/Standard_Forms
PAT_LOG_PATH=/Users/va2ss/Documents/PAT/pat_config/pat.log
PAT_MAILBOX_PATH=/Users/va2ss/Documents/PAT/pat_config/mailbox

they are all there... 

but when doing pat env to check.... PAT still show the default values...

PAT_OS="darwin"
PAT_MAILBOX_PATH="/Users/va2ss/Library/Application Support/pat/mailbox"
PAT_CONFIG_PATH="/Users/va2ss/Library/Application Support/pat/config.json"
PAT_LOG_PATH="/Users/va2ss/Library/Application Support/pat/pat.log"
PAT_EVENTLOG_PATH="/Users/va2ss/Library/Application Support/pat/eventlog.json"
PAT_FORMS_PATH="/Users/va2ss/Library/Application Support/pat/Standard_Forms"
PAT_DEBUG=""

Help would be appreciated...

73 de Jeff | VA2SS 

[Scott Busby]

In your exports, you are inconsistently using quotes around the paths. Also, try using the full path, instead of starting with tilde "~". Since defaults use quotes, I would use quotes.

Scott KJ6VMH

[Jeff VA2SS]

could you give me an example that works ?

[Martin Hebnes Pedersen]

Hi Jeff,

These are env vars exposed by Pat for consumption by scripts. Most of them are not read by Pat.

Pat reads the XDR env vars, so you can use those to tweak config/state/cache dirs.

You can also set various config values, like this: https://github.com/la5nta/pat-docker/blob/66407bc741caf94549e0de92a873bd1093811eae/docker-compose.yml#L10.

https://github.com/la5nta/pat/wiki/The-command-line-interface#environment-variables

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73 de LA5NTA / Martin.

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[Jeff VA2SS]

OK got it.  thanks everyone. 

73 de Jeff | VA2SS 

[Dominic Reich]

Starting pat with arguments pointing to the desired paths works.

#v+
pat --mbox {/real/path/that/exists/with/permissions} --forms .. --config .. --log .. --event-log .. env
#v-

Though, I only tested with the mailbox path as I could not make me copy
the others files aswell to other directories :P

-dominic

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[HB9HIL]

Because I'm a really lazy person and like to work with CLI I created a little bin for that:

Create a little file in a new folder called `bin`:

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mkdir -p ~/.bin
touch ~/.bin/patmail

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Edit the file with the editor of your choice (vi or nano)

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nano ~/.bin/patmail

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And place this code in there
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#!/bin/sh

PAT_MAILBOX_PATH="/Path/To/pat/mailbox"
PAT_CONFIG_PATH="/Path/To/pat/config.json"
PAT_LOG_PATH="/Path/To/pat/pat.log"
PAT_EVENTLOG_PATH="/Path/To/pat/eventlog.json"
PAT_FORMS_PATH="/Path/To/pat/Standard_Forms"

pat --mbox "$PAT_MAILBOX_PATH" --config "$PAT_CONFIG_PATH" --log "$PAT_LOG_PATH" --event-log "$PAT_EVENTLOG_PATH" --forms "$PAT_FORMS_PATH" "$@"

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Save the file with `Ctrl + X and Y` and

make the file executable

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chmod +x ~/.bin/patmail

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Source the bin path for it
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echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
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Now you can run
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patmail env
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And it shows you the paths you configured in `~/.bin/patmail`

Also `patmail connect telnet` works absolutely normal

Vy 73 de HB9HIL

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