Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:03:27 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1016582608.bc94ad@mired.org> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to put a colon as a value in /etc/login.conf? Message-ID: <15505.14927.675350.265835@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020314155118.P39420-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> References: <20020314155118.P39420-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com>
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In <20020314155118.P39420-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com>, Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> typed: > Hi - > I would like to set an environment variable in /etc/login.conf > using the "setenv" paramater. It currently reades like this: > > :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ > > I would like to add: > > CVSROOT=:pserver:hostname:/path/to/cvs > > But no matter what I try it doesn't work. I can't quote the string, I > can't seem to escape the colons. The manpage doesn't tell me if it's > possible... Seek you the information in termcap(5). There it is for reasons really ugly. Colon to get use \072. Bubble, bubble. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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