From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 18:55:36 2005 Return-Path: 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 99CDC16A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:55:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E0943D3F for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:55:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j3AItZb0025071; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:55:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j3AItZt2025070; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:55:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200504101855.j3AItZt2025070@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: msherman77@yahoo.com (Michael S) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:55:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20050410180518.46745.qmail@web88211.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: environment variables X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:55:36 -0000 > > Hi all. > In order to set an environment variable at boot time, > something like http_proxy, where would I do that? Depends somewhat on what it is and what it is for. But, many things you can set in /etc/rc.conf. Things specific to certain applications should probably be done either in their config files or in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xxx.sh script. ////jerry > > Thanks in advance. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >