Re: Where to put environment variables?

[Praveen Kallakuri <praveen@unlserve.unl.edu>]

hmm. what vineet says is true.  ofcourse they should all be exported!

man bash and look under INVOCATION. FILES section tells you when 
/etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile adn ~/.bashrc are read.

one simple way to test is echoing something different in each of 
/etc/profile and .bash_profile. see which of the messages appears!! :) 
in the shell where you say env variables are not reflected.

solong



Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Joao Clemente <jpcl@rnl.ist.utl.pt> [20030227 18:16 PST]:
>
> > On Friday 28 February 2003 01:06, praveen kallakuri wrote:
> >
> > > your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile
> > > is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login
> > > shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your
> > > environment variables in .bashrc in your HOME. and source .bashrc in
> > > your .bash_profile.
> >
> > I think that is not the problem I'm facing:
> >
> > When I start kde through "startx" my konsole has the enviroment set up 
> > properly.
> > When I start kde through kdm, the same console does not have the environment 
> > set up. 
> >
> > If I had the problem you talk about, I would face it either way, right?
>
>
> Nope.  When you log in at the console, that's your login shell.  Any
> sub-processes (including your entire X session) inherit the environment
> from the parent process, in which the variable has been set.
>
> good times,
> Vineet