On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:43:13 +0000, "b. f." <bf1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza <aiza21 at comclark.com> wrote: > >> Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this > >> > >> > >> setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message > >> setenv: Syntax Error. > > > >Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv. > > It looks like he is actually using csh, because in the Bourne shell > issuing that command usually yields "setenv: not found". His problem > is that, unlike "export", setenv doesn't take an "=" between the > variable and the value to be assigned to it. See csh(1).
Yes, you're right of course, I didn't notice that. The correct syntax for the setenv command in the C shell is setenv VAR "value" > When you are directed to builtin(1), it usually means that you should > refer to the manpage(s) of the shell that you are using for the > information that you need. That's why I suggested looking at csh's manpage. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"