Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:46:52 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exporting a variable on login Message-ID: <20021219154652.GA83349@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <008c01c2a771$c4846830$ec9e1ec4@staff.uunet.co.za> References: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKGEJAKHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> <008c01c2a771$c4846830$ec9e1ec4@staff.uunet.co.za>
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:17:37PM +0200, Patrick Holahan wrote:
> 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 (:
Alternatively try /etc/login.conf -- one change for all shells...
default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES,CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvs:\
and don't forget to 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after editing the file...
Cheers,
Matthew
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