[jira] [Reopened] (STORM-160) Allow ShellBolt to set env vars (particularly PATH)

["Shyam Rajendran (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-160?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Shyam Rajendran reopened STORM-160:
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The patch requires one more +1 

> Allow ShellBolt to set env vars (particularly PATH)
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>                 Key: STORM-160
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-160
>             Project: Apache Storm
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: James Xu
>            Assignee: Shyam Rajendran
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: newbie
>
> https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/issues/32
> While trying to implement a multilang based bolt, I discovered that binaries outside of /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin, are not found despite being installed in say, /usr/local/bin.
> Is there a way to specify a PATH variable so when storm creates the sub shell, these binaries can be located by name? If not, can we get one added?
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> nathanmarz: This is a good idea. For the meantime, does using the full path of the binary (e.g., /usr/local/bin/python) work around this issue?
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> dinedal: That works for processes that don't require any other environment variables.
> Also, in cases where developers have multiple versions of a program (say, RVM) and the production servers have another one installed on the system, it means changing code for deploying the topology.
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> nicoo: +1
> To work around this issue you can start your multilang bolt from a bash script that set all needed env vars.



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