From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 7:19:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C0037B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.iafrica.com (smtp02.iafrica.com [196.7.0.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A882643ED4 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:19:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@sdn.co.za) Received: from nop236.nop.jnb6.za.uu.net ([196.30.158.236] helo=blackhole) by smtp02.iafrica.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18P2Sh-0006z9-00; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:19:47 +0200 Message-ID: <008c01c2a771$c4846830$ec9e1ec4@staff.uunet.co.za> From: "Patrick Holahan" To: "Barry Byrne" , References: Subject: Re: Exporting a variable on login Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:17:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 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 Hey Barry, > > 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) Thanks very much.. This worked perfectly (: -ph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message