Re: setting up environment variables

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Dom on 12/09/05 12:20, wrote:
> SO I need to change system variables TMPDIR, TEMP and TMP... how
> should I do that?
> One source tells me to change .bash_profile from my (and every other
> user's if I want to do this as the system default) home folder by
> putting 'export TMPDIR=[path]' in it, BUT
> another source tells me that /etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc and
> ~/.bash_logout are standard scripts that are executed at various times
> and  ~/.bashrc is executed when bash is launched.
> So now I'm not sure which one to change, .bashrc or .bash_profile...
> Can somebody tell me?
>
> BTW, is this the only way of setting system default variables or I
> missed something?

If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in 
/etc/profile since all users' profile include that.

I expect there are many other ways of achieving this as well, but that's 
what I'd do.

Adam