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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:12:45 -0000
From:      "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To:        "Patrick Holahan" <patrick@sdn.co.za>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Exporting a variable on login
Message-ID:  <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKGEJAKHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <006301c2a76f$6a282720$ec9e1ec4@staff.uunet.co.za>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick Holahan

> 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)

Cheers,

Barry

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