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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!pasteur.fr!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD -- where do I set global environment vars? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E8ABDs.1pn@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <5ib8ud$pge$1@news.depaul.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:25:04 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38707 Jim Leonard (root@boxotrix.it-ias.depaul.edu) wrote: : I love FreeBSD 2.2.1 -- I've completely converted over to it. I'm : having a problem, however: I want to set the environment variable : TMPDIR set to a value, and have it show up for everything on the system. : In previous unix's, all I had to do was set something in /etc/login or : /etc/profile, but I don't see those listed here. I've put it in : /etc/rc.local, but it doesn't stick. I log in, and TMPDIR is still : unset. (I added "TMPDIR=/usr/tmp; export TMPDIR" to rc.local) : What am I missing? Where do I set this? You should have /etc/profile contain settings for /bin/sh users and /etc/csh.login and /etc/csh.cshrc for /bin/csh users. That does the job on my system ;-) Good luck, Phil. : -- : Jim Leonard, SysAdmin at DePaul University and demofreak : work: jleonard@condor.depaul.edu : home: trixter@mcs.com : For a new experience, try http://www.cdrom.com/pub/demos/hornet/html/demos.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)