# Automatically activating project on remote workers

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-activating-project-on-remote-workers/62034>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** distributed, startup, environment\
**Created:** [May 29, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-activating-project-on-remote-workers/62034 "2021-05-29T08:18:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jishnub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jishnub/32/33620_2.png) [@jishnub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jishnub)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-activating-project-on-remote-workers/62034/1 "2021-05-29T08:18:23Z")

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Starting Julia with multiple workers and an active project currently only activates the environment on the master process. Does it not make more sense to activate the project on all workers?

```julia
jishnu:OffsetArrays.jl/ $ julia -p 2 --project                                                                                      
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   _ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_) | (_) (_) |
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.6.1 (2021-04-23)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
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julia> Base.active_project()
"/home/jishnu/Dropbox/JuliaPackages/OffsetArrays.jl/Project.toml"

julia> @fetchfrom 2 Base.active_project()
"/home/jishnu/.julia/environments/v1.6/Project.toml"

```

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-activating-project-on-remote-workers/62034/2 "2021-05-29T08:27:03Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28781](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28781)