Re: adding environment vars?

From: Richard Cohen <richard.a.t.vmlinuz.org>
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 11:02:04 EDT

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Holger Schurig wrote:

> Ohoh, no one alive on this channel ...
>
> no one recognized that a shell script can't set global environment
> variables ... :-)))

Unless, of course, you do what I've done a couple of times in the past, and
set them in the /etc/init.d/x script. Assuming you're running X, most
things you run are going to be children of either the X server of the window
manager, so will inherit their enviroment from there.

Cheers
Richard
Received on Fri Jul 20 07:55:38 2001

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