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Subject: RE: Exporting a variable on login
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick Holahan

> 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)

Cheers,

Barry

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