From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 12:59: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27F714FA6 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11ijOj-000B1S-00; Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:15:13 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11ijOj-0002Ed-00; Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:15:13 +0000 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:15:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Greg Lehey Cc: Scott Worthington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Location of vinum /var/tmp/vinum_history Message-ID: <19991102191512.A8576@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19991030164832.A12516@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991101135438.34003@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19991101135438.34003@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: >> Scott Worthington wrote: >> >>> How do you set an environment variable at boot time? [snip rc.conf suggestion] > > Yes, that should work, modulo location. You shouldn't put it > in /etc/rc.conf, though: first, you shouldn't change that, What? I thought it was /etc/defaults/rc.conf that we didn't change, and we do change /etc/rc.conf.... Did I miss something somewhere? > and secondly it would only apply to the startup if you put it there. > Try /etc/profile instead. I guessed from the bit of Scott's message (quoted above) that he was starting vinum at some point in the boot process when /etc/rc.conf would have been read. Maybe I guessed wrong... -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message