On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of > environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). > > First of all : > > HOSTTYPE=i386-linux
Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just pentiums. > (2) > The other thing is that the DISPLAY env variable is set > to "unix:0.0". My question is : shouldn't this variable > be of the form $HOSTNAME:0.0 ? So why is set to "unix:0.0" ? > > And how do I change this env variable on a global basis > (ie for all users) ? unix:0.0 means it's using a Unix Domain Socket, IIRC. UDS is for local connections. > (3) > The last thing is : I'd like to create an environment variable > that contains the following information : kernel version and > machine architechture. e.g. : linux-2.2.12-i686. Let's call > it OSVERSION. Where do I set this environment variable ? /etc/environment is a good place. Ben