Modify runtime environment within a sleep script

[dilepton]

Hi all, 

I plan to use Sleep in a Windows Terminal Server environment. I need to use Slumber

to connect via jdbc to a Sybase database, fetching some values to modify the PATH 

environment variable and set some specific environment variables for starting the main (native)

Windows binary. 

With exec(@("Program", "Params" ...), %ENV) I'm able to pass a modified environment, but

how to modify the System Environment? E.g the PATH variable to add some search pathes 

for the main binary and additional Windows libs, which are not in the System path variable? 

Any idea?

Kind regards - Alfred 

[Raphael Mudge]

Hi Alfred,
I don't know if Java can do this. What I typically do is either start
my Java program in a .bat file that sets up the environment I need or
I spawn a child program with the modified environment it needs.

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[dilepton]

Hi Raphael, just to clarify:

The chain of calls would be
1. Batch file starts the Java with the Sleep script
2. Sleep script somehow modifies the environement
3. Windows binary called with modified environment

I would love to use Sleep's capabilities to connect to a database with Slumber and JDBC
to fetch the config values from a database.

How would you modify the environment for the child program?

Kind regards - dilepton