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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD -- where do I set global environment vars?
Date: 8 Apr 1997 09:17:50 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <E8ABDs.1pn@sphynx.fdn.fr>,
causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) writes:
> Jim Leonard (root@boxotrix.it-ias.depaul.edu) wrote:
>: I love FreeBSD 2.2.1 -- I've completely converted over to it. I'm
>: having a problem, however: I want to set the environment variable
>: TMPDIR set to a value, and have it show up for everything on the system.
>: In previous unix's, all I had to do was set something in /etc/login or
>: /etc/profile, but I don't see those listed here. I've put it in
>: /etc/rc.local, but it doesn't stick. I log in, and TMPDIR is still
>: unset. (I added "TMPDIR=/usr/tmp; export TMPDIR" to rc.local)
>
>: What am I missing? Where do I set this?
>
> You should have /etc/profile contain settings for /bin/sh users
> and /etc/csh.login and /etc/csh.cshrc for /bin/csh users.
>
> That does the job on my system ;-)
Of course this doesn't do it for things like rshd. If you want
them to know about it too, you'll need to export your vars at the
top of /etc/rc
> Good luck,
> Phil.
>
>: --
>: Jim Leonard, SysAdmin at DePaul University and demofreak
>: work: jleonard@condor.depaul.edu
>: home: trixter@mcs.com
>: For a new experience, try http://www.cdrom.com/pub/demos/hornet/html/demos.html
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !