Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread Jon Haugsand
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks to everone for their information! I appreciate it! However, the information does not seem to be all together correct. Whenever you start a new bourne shell (sh, bash, ksh, ...), the following files are read: /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/*.sh ${HOME}/.bashrc Wh

Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread dlangschied
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:54 PM Subject: RE: Creating User environment variables. > Hi, > > The same procedure :) > You can use the /etc/profile for system wide configurations, or the > .profile || .bash_profile if using

RE: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread Alexander Spanke
dlangschied Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating User environment variables. Hi! I am use to the HP-UX world where you can create a user specific environemtn by modifying the .profile. How do you do the same in Linux? Sincerely, David Langschied Langschied

Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread Brian Ashe
dlangschied, On Saturday May 31, 2003 12:54, dlangschied wrote: > I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a number of environment > variables that I want to pass onto the user at login. I should be able to > do so by modifying a file (like .profile) that is launched when the user

Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
dlangschied wrote: I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a number of environment variables that I want to pass onto the user at login. I should be able to do so by modifying a file (like .profile) that is launched when the user logs in. I tried to vi /bin/bash and it was not possible

Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread Panos Platon Tsapralis
Hi David, The name of the file is '.bash_profile' in Linux 'bash' shell. It is located in the home directory of the user account. HTH, dlangschied wrote: I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a number of environment variables that I want to pass onto the user at logi

Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread dlangschied
I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a number of environment variables that I want to pass onto the user at login. I should be able to do so by modifying a file (like .profile) that is launched when the user logs in. I tried to vi /bin/bash and it was not possible. THerefore, I am

Re: Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread Karim Nowruzi
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 20:32, dlangschied wrote: > Hi! > I am use to the HP-UX world where you can create a user specific environemtn > by modifying the .profile. How do you do the same in Linux? > > Sincerely, > > David Langschied > Langschied Consulting Services > 25644 Mackinac > Roseville, MI

Creating User environment variables.

2003-06-01 Thread dlangschied
Hi! I am use to the HP-UX world where you can create a user specific environemtn by modifying the .profile. How do you do the same in Linux? Sincerely, David Langschied Langschied Consulting Services 25644 Mackinac Roseville, MI 48066 Phone: (586)777-7542 Cell: (248)789-8493 e-mail: [EMA

environment variables for specific groups?

2003-03-23 Thread Alejandro Calbazana
Hello, I am setting up CVS and would like to have a set of environment variables set and exported for a given group (my cvs group). I know that putting variables in /etc/profile will make vars. available globally, and I know that using id -G will tell me what groups a user belongs to. Thinking

Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probableB newbie question

2003-01-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13:19 10 Jan 2003, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: | > as i mentioned, you need to execute the script with the "." command. | > yes, the . really is a shell command -- it means "execute this script in | > the current shell". | | Actuall

Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probableBnewbie question

2003-01-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as i mentioned, you need to execute the script with the "." command. > yes, the . really is a shell command -- it means "execute this script in > the current shell". Actually, "." is a builtin alias for "source." It's easier to explain this to peop

Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probableBnewbie question

2003-01-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 10 Jan 2003, Peter Davie wrote: > Hi Robert, > Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I got the reason- it is pretty > much what I suspected. However, I am not clear on your reply. Is there a > command line utility you are referring to, or a shell syntax (I'm using > bash) that I should use to

Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script,probable newbie question

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Davie
thick on this one. Thanks again, Peter Message: 7 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:08:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RedHat Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probable newbie question

Re: Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probablenewbie question

2003-01-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 10 Jan 2003, Peter Davie wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a problem with setting environment variables that are only > supposed to exist in that terminal session. The script is shown below. any changes you make in a shell script that you run *normally* are not reflected in your cur

Setting temporary environment variables from a script, probablenewbie question

2003-01-10 Thread Peter Davie
Hi, I'm having a problem with setting environment variables that are only supposed to exist in that terminal session. The script is shown below. echo Setting LENZ Development environment variables. echo echo Please Note: the CLASSPATH variable is altered for the durati

Environment variables

1998-06-17 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello!: Just a curious question, where do I read about the Environment variables for RH? I've read some instructions which tell me to change or add them but I just don't know anything about this, For example, when I call edquota it says it will call "vi" or the edit