From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 30 13:28:53 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 38A3014D6D for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 13:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (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 11hak5-0007By-00; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:48:33 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11hak4-0003G4-00; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:48:32 +0100 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:48:32 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Scott Worthington Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Location of vinum /var/tmp/vinum_history Message-ID: <19991030164832.A12516@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Worthington wrote: > Okay, I see that you can set the environment > variable VINUM_HISTORY to point to the > correct location of the file. > > How do you set an environment variable at boot > time? I am assuming that at boot up the vinum > module reads VINUM_HISTORY. You should be able to put it in /etc/rc.conf, e.g. VINUM_HISTORY=/foo; export VINUM_HISTORY though I have never tried this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. -- 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