how to set environment variables in init.d/ scripts

["Yuwen Dai" <yuwend@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

I installed distcc. Distcc is invoked by a script in init.d.  In order to use a cross compiler, the distcc needs to know the path of the cross compiler and other environment variable. I put lines like:

export VAR=xxx 

in the script.  Seems no effect.  What's the correct method?

Best regards,
Yuwen