Subject: Re: enviromental variable
From: Richard Mckinney (mckinney@gci.net)
Date: Sat May 11 2002 - 14:09:31 AKDT
Environment variables can be setup with the .profile file in the given
users home directory.
Also read on login is a shell specific config file called .bashrc (for
the bash shell). Environment variables can be set there as well. Which
shell is used on a normal user login can be determined by examining the
/etc/passwd file.
There are other files that can set environment variables that can be
edited for speceific requirements but I would suggest keeping it simple
and using the .profile/.bashrc approach.
As always...check the man pages/howtos
Rich
Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> You should be able to just do "export CDR_SECURITY=..." the
> CDR_SECURITY... part might need to be in quotes. To double check it
> went in okay, you just type "export" by itself and it will list all your
> env. variables.
>
> However, I don't think that this will stick if you reboot. If anyone
> knows where you set it permanantly, I would be interested to know as well!
>
> Justin
>
> Greg Madden wrote:
>
> > I need to set the environment variable , shown below, but since I dont'
> > really know howto, can it really be as simple as entering the following
> > at a command prompt or is there more to it ?
> >
> > CDR_SECURITY=8:dvd,clone,lowspeed:sparc-sun-solaris2,i386-pc-solaris2,
> > i586-pc-linux:1.11::1024313569:::private/research/educational_non-commercial_use:
> > 3a09VvAtVVB2Qv/y630qBBylEUQcfPiypXvpbEirc6dCwnVidZyqvauQBxx
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
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