Re: basics about env variables
AFAIK /etc/default/rcS is used only by boot time scripts (found under
/etc/rcS.d).
If you want to set global environment variables you have to modify
/etc/profile
On 29 Dec 2002 at 12:39, Robert Land wrote:
> The slrnpull program provides the option to
> use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of
> passing the newsserver by argument.
>
> As being not that experienced in unix I had
> a look at the rcS script to look how this
> might be done.
> Following the PATH setting in this file I added
> these two lines:
>
> NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de
> export NNTPSERVER
>
> then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER
> which resulted in a blank line in response.
>
> What was my fault and was this actually slrnpull
> required?
>
> Any comments are grately appreciated.
>
> Robert
>
>
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