Re: xdm and user's profiles
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:37:51PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > >
> > >------------------------- /etc/enviroment ----------------------------------
> > >LANG=C
> > >EMAIL="goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de"
> > >------------------------------ xterm ---------------------------------------
> > >
> > ># echo $LANG
> > >C
> > ># echo $EMAIL
> > >
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > It needs to be exported.
> >
> > Use set -a, or export particular variables in Xsession.
>
> But why does it work for LANG and not for EMAIL?
Maybe it doesn't? Try commenting out both first; perhaps LANG is
set to C elsewhere.
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alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@wasters.org
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