# Capistrano can't find svn **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 17, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725 "2006-05-17T00:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/1 "2006-05-17T00:53:31Z")
I’m trying to get capistrano to deploy to an osx machine - rake remote:cold\_deploy but it fails on the svn co line with “bash: line 2: svn: command not found” I’ve set the proper path to svn (/usr/local/bin) in both .bash\_profile and .bash\_login but capistrano seems to be ignoring these. How does capistrano know where to look for svn? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/2 "2006-05-17T01:08:54Z")
Oops! Didn’t notice: # set :svn, “/path/to/svn” # defaults to searching the PATH in deploy.rb. Still it doesn’t seem to search the PATH. ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/3 "2006-05-17T21:53:14Z")
Hammed, You need to set the :svn variable. The PATH it searches is the path that is baked into sshd, which is usually only /bin and /usr/bin. - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/4 "2006-05-17T23:05:49Z")
Jamis B. wrote: > You need to set the :svn variable. The PATH it searches is the path > that is baked into sshd, which is usually only /bin and /usr/bin. You can generally modify the search path for remote ssh commands by creating a .bashrc file in your home directory. For example, mine says: export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH on a machine where I have my own copies of a lot of binaries. –Al Evans ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/5 "2006-05-18T04:55:10Z")
Hi Al, > You can generally modify the search path for remote ssh commands by > creating a .bashrc file in your home directory. For example, mine says: > > export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH Are you sure about this? I tried it and it didn’t work. I have export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH in my .bashrc which is in the home directory and is executable. ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/6 "2006-05-18T06:42:33Z")
Hammed M. wrote: > > You can generally modify the search path for remote ssh commands by > > creating a .bashrc file in your home directory. For example, mine says: > > > > export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH > > Are you sure about this? I tried it and it didn’t work. I have > > export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH > > in my .bashrc which is in the home directory and is executable. Works for me as well. Your .bashrc (on the remote host, right?) doesn’t need to be executable. You also have to have .bashrc as your login shell. If your login shell is tcsh you need a .cshrc file. – Ray ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/7 "2006-05-18T07:31:14Z")
Ray, The .bashrc file is on the remote server which is OSX. According to [http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week105/monday.ws](http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week105/monday.ws) , non-login shells don’t run any scripts on startup: Non-interactive shells. When you run a shell script, a new shell is launched to execute the script. The new shell is a non-interactive (non-login) shell. It does not source any scripts on startup. ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/8 "2006-05-20T08:58:01Z")
Note, however, that Capistrano does not use a login shell, thus the .bashrc is not executed when Capistrano sessions are created. There are supposedly ways to work around this–for instance, if your sshd is configured to support it, you can have ~/.ssh/environment contain the variables you want set by all new sessions (login shell or not). However, this appears to be disabled by default for most installations. - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@Hammed\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hammed_M)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-cant-find-svn/60725/9 "2006-05-18T07:58:38Z")
Hammed M. wrote: > The .bashrc file is on the remote server which is OSX. > > According to [http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week105/monday.ws](http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/unix-tricks/week105/monday.ws) > , non-login shells don’t run any scripts on startup: > > Non-interactive shells. When you run a shell script, a new shell is > launched to execute the script. The new shell is a non-interactive > (non-login) shell. It does not source any scripts on startup. The ssh session is a login shell. A Non-interactive shell is when you execute a shell script. The ssh session logins you in. I added this line to my .bashrc on my OS X server, echo “Hi there” Then I sshed to that machine from another server stork$ ssh ray@auk date Hi there Wed May 17 22:46:55 PDT 2006 stork$ You can see that the contents of the .bashrc appear. Your problem may be the presence of a .bash\_profile > When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- > active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- > mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading > that file, it looks for ~/.bash\_profile, ~/.bash\_login, and ~/.profile, > in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that > exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the > shell is started to inhibit this behavior. – Ray