On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Peter Granroth wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 07:50:22PM -0500, the lone gunman shared with us the > following words of wisdom: > > > > I moved back to school, and now must use a different news server than > > the one I used at home. Where do I change where the NNTPSERVER > > environment variable is originally initialized? Changing > > /etc/nntpserver doesn't seem to do it. > > > > Thanks > > since you didn't tell what shell you use, I'll assume bash. the global > configuration files are /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, and personal config > files are ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. For more info on how bash uses > these files, chek out the "Invocation" section in the bash man page. > In your casse, simply put the following line in /etc/profile:
I thought it was read from /etc/news/server? Unless that is trn specific, that is where mine is set. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>
