Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-30 Thread Robert Land
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:16:28AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > > > The slrnpull program provides the option to > > use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of > > passing the newsserver by argument. > > > > As being not that experienced in unix I had > > a

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 16:35:43, "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 29/12/02 Robert Land did speaketh: > >> NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de >> export NNTPSERVER >> >> then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER >> which resulted in a blank line in response. >> >> What was my fault and was thi

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > The slrnpull program provides the option to > use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of > passing the newsserver by argument. > > As being not that experienced in unix I had > a look at the rcS script to look how this > might be done. As in, the very fi

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Mat
AFAIK /etc/default/rcS is used only by boot time scripts (found under /etc/rcS.d). If you want to set global environment variables you have to modify /etc/profile On 29 Dec 2002 at 12:39, Robert Land wrote: > The slrnpull program provides the option to > use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/12/02 Robert Land did speaketh: > NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de > export NNTPSERVER > > then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER > which resulted in a blank line in response. > > What was my fault and was this actually slrnpull > required? That is the correct syntax for setting

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:39:08PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de > export NNTPSERVER > > then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER > which resulted in a blank line in response. $ export NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de $ echo $NNTPSERVER news.btx.dtag.de -- .''`.

basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
The slrnpull program provides the option to use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of passing the newsserver by argument. As being not that experienced in unix I had a look at the rcS script to look how this might be done. Following the PATH setting in this file I added these two lines: NNTPSER