Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

2012-03-12 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:08:57 +0800 schrieb XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com: Not everyone uses bash as the default shell, you can also source ~/.profile in your bash_profile if you like. But the thread subject says bash export. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

2012-03-11 Thread XeCycle
Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the speech server

Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

2012-03-11 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 08:04:27AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the

Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

2012-03-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:18:43 +0800 schrieb XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com: Aren't you supposed to edit ~/.profile by hand? Isn't the correct file to set such environment variables locally ~/.bash_profile resp. ~/.bashrc? For global settings it's /etc/profile or better a new file in /etc/profile.d

Re: [arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

2012-03-11 Thread XeCycle
Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de writes: Am Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:18:43 +0800 schrieb XeCycle xecy...@gmail.com: Aren't you supposed to edit ~/.profile by hand? Isn't the correct file to set such environment variables locally ~/.bash_profile resp. ~/.bashrc? Not everyone uses bash as the