Parallel and $ENV{"HOME"}

[Benjamin Henrion]

Hi,

I use parallel to shoot WALs of postgresql to multiple servers:

$ grep parallel /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf
archive_command = 'parallel -a /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/walservers
"mkdir -pv /tmp/{}/pg_xlog/; gzip -1 -v -c %p > /tmp/{}/%p.gz; rsync
/tmp/{}/%p.gz -az --timeout=15 --log-file=/var/log/pgwal/pgwal{}.log
{}:/db/current/wal/%f.gz; rm -v /tmp/{}/%p.gz"'            # command
to use to archive a logfile segment

Then in the postgresql logs, it complains that the $ENV{"HOME"}
variable is not set:

Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string
at /usr/bin/parallel line 727.
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string
at /usr/bin/parallel line 727.
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string
at /usr/bin/parallel line 1880.
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string
at /usr/bin/parallel line 1880.

Any idea how to fix that?

Best,

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