set SOMETHING="some value" export SOMETHING
If you didn't export it, then it will only be local to the script itself. Not to the env it's creating. On 12 Jan 2002, Tech At Mathco Dot Com wrote: > I tried putting those lines in /etc/profile but it still doesn't work. > > the 'set' command shows that it has been exported but the icons still > don't show. > > /MattB > > -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
