Oh yes, i finally broke down and dropped them in /etc/profile for the moment. I spent several hours this morning on a piece of code that communicates with a device. Chasing down errors that were totally a result of the environmental variable not being set and there being some hard coded user name and passwords in there as a result.
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Paul Rogers <[email protected]>wrote: > > I have had some trouble for a long time with exporting some > > environmental variables from my .bash_profile or the .bashrc > > > > Even if I manually execute those files, the variables still are not > > set. I have a echo 'path set' in files and I do see that when I do a: > > You've gotten the best advice, about login vs subshells. Don't forget > one of the most basic things--you've got to export them! Once or twice > when I've been in a rush and thinking of other things I've forgotten, > and it's taken me even longer to diagnose. ;-) > -- > Paul Rogers > [email protected] > http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ > Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." > (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) > > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and > love email again > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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