This problem comes up with me trying to make svnserve (Subversion server) available on a server through SSH. I compiled SVN and installed it in $HOME/bin. Local access to it (not through SSH) works fine.

Connections to svn+ssh fail due to:

bash: svnserve: command not found

Debugging this, I've found that:

ssh user@server "which svnserve"

says:

which: no svnserve in (/usr/bin:/bin)

This is strange, because I've updated the path to $HOME/bin in my .bashrc, and also added it in ~/.ssh/environment. However, it seems like the SSH doesn't read it. Although when I run:

ssh user@server "echo $PATH"

It does print my updated path!

What's going on here? How can I make SSH find my svnserve? Thanks in advance