Re: Exporting a variable on login

2002-12-19 Thread Patrick Holahan 
Hey Barry,

  Hi guys  gals..
 
  I'm trying to get cvs to work on my BSD 4.6-RELEASE system.. and
  I'd like to
  make it easier to use for the clients loggin on.
  So what I'd like to do is set the CVSROOT variable to /usr/local/cvsroot
 
  However, when I try set this in .profile like so:
 
  CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot; export CVSROOT
  It doesn't work
 

 Patrick:

 Try:

 /etc/profile  for sh-like shells (bash, sh, ksh)
 /etc/csh.login for csh-like shells (csh, tcsh)

Thanks very much.. This worked perfectly (:

-ph


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Re: Exporting a variable on login

2002-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman 
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:17:37PM +0200, Patrick Holahan wrote:
 Hey Barry,
 
   Hi guys  gals..
  
   I'm trying to get cvs to work on my BSD 4.6-RELEASE system.. and
   I'd like to
   make it easier to use for the clients loggin on.
   So what I'd like to do is set the CVSROOT variable to /usr/local/cvsroot
  
   However, when I try set this in .profile like so:
  
   CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot; export CVSROOT
   It doesn't work
  
 
  Patrick:
 
  Try:
 
  /etc/profile  for sh-like shells (bash, sh, ksh)
  /etc/csh.login for csh-like shells (csh, tcsh)
 
 Thanks very much.. This worked perfectly (:

Alternatively try /etc/login.conf -- one change for all shells...

default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\

:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES,CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs:\

and don't forget to 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after editing the file...

Cheers,

Matthew

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