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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Reading putty command line parameters from Linux Post 302307546 by SFNYC on Wednesday 15th of April 2009 05:18:21 PM
Old 04-15-2009
Reading putty command line parameters from Linux

I am running Putty 0.60 from Windows XP and I am connecting to a Linux box.
I would like to be able to pass a command line parameter to my Linux session so that my Linux session can execute a specific command, depending on the command line parameter. I have looked on the Internet and tried various ways, but cannot find the answer. I have also tried setting an environment variable, but my Linux machine tells me 'Server refused to set environment variables'. So I guess there is some setting that is preventing this. Without going to my SYSADMIN to override this, is there another way to do it?

Code:
$ uname -s -r -p
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp x86_64

What I want to do is let's say pass -myvar varvalue
Then in Linux somehow query this parameter.

Can this be done?

Thanks
Sam
 

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GETSID(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 GETSID(2)

NAME
getsid - get session ID SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> pid_t getsid(pid_t pid); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): getsid(): _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 DESCRIPTION
getsid(0) returns the session ID of the calling process. getsid(p) returns the session ID of the process with process ID p. (The session ID of a process is the process group ID of the session leader.) RETURN VALUE
On success, a session ID is returned. On error, (pid_t) -1 will be returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
EPERM A process with process ID p exists, but it is not in the same session as the calling process, and the implementation considers this an error. ESRCH No process with process ID p was found. VERSIONS
This system call is available on Linux since version 2.0. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001. NOTES
Linux does not return EPERM. SEE ALSO
getpgid(2), setsid(2), credentials(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2008-12-05 GETSID(2)
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