From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 8:10:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3C2337B405 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:10:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 81231 invoked by uid 100); 17 Aug 2001 15:10:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15229.13299.802679.707365@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:10:43 -0500 To: Roger Merritt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What sets my env? In-Reply-To: <53740635@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger Merritt types: > I was preparing to make my docs and checked the environment variable > DOC_LANG, since they changed the name of the directory in the doc tree. I > found that DOC_LANG was still set to the old value and started looking > around to find where this was being set from. Darned if I can find it. It's > not being done in my .profile or .bashrc. grep doesn't find anything in the > file in /etc, although I did find a line in /etc/defaults/make.conf; but it > has the correct value. My current solution was to copy the relevant lines > to /etc/make.conf and uncomment the required line. > But I'm curious. Where is this environment value being set when the shell > is started? It can be set in /etc/login.conf. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message