Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:56:56 -0700 From: "Nathaniel Schein" <nschein@prisa.com> To: "Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Variables / Environments Message-ID: <47dd27ada65e72afb566ded9a0ab629d38179159@(null)>
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I am tasked with migrating a version 2.1.0 system to a 3.2 system. We are
using NIS and AMD. The previous sys admin incorporated an ${ARCH} variable
into the sysconfig file that became a system or global variable. The
statement is:
ARCH=`uname -s`/`uname -r`/`uname -m` export ARCH
The ${ARCH} variable is used by AMD but when I type:
echo $ARCH
on the command prompt I get:
ARCH: Undefined variable.
My questions are, what are the different environments in FreeBSD, what runs
in them and how does one gain access to them? How does one define a global
variable?
Also, I put the ARCH statement in the rc.conf file and referenced it through
AMD by:
bin type:=nfs;rhost:=g;rfs:=/usr/people/share/${ARCH}/${key}
this is the same statement used in the 2.1.0 system but the system does not
expand what is between `and`. The 3.2 system only sees:
uname -s/uname -r/uname -m
Does anyone have any insight, understands this or understands me?
Nathaniel Schein
System Administrator
mailto:nschein@prisa.com
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