Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:15:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Scott Worthington <SWorthington@hsag.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Location of vinum /var/tmp/vinum_history Message-ID: <19991102191512.A8576@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991101135438.34003@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> References: <s8170041.022@internal.hsag.com> <19991030164832.A12516@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991101135438.34003@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
>> Scott Worthington wrote:
>>
>>> How do you set an environment variable at boot time?
[snip rc.conf suggestion]
>
> Yes, that should work, modulo location. You shouldn't put it
> in /etc/rc.conf, though: first, you shouldn't change that,
What? I thought it was /etc/defaults/rc.conf that we didn't change, and we
do change /etc/rc.conf.... Did I miss something somewhere?
> and secondly it would only apply to the startup if you put it there.
> Try /etc/profile instead.
I guessed from the bit of Scott's message (quoted above) that he was
starting vinum at some point in the boot process when /etc/rc.conf would
have been read. Maybe I guessed wrong...
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