On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:39:36PM +0530, Rahul Kumar wrote: > I frequently change an env variable (say CLASSPATH) on one terminal, i > then either have to keep changing it on other terminals, or logout and > login so it takes effect from bash_profile.
You don't have to do that. If you made changes to your profile in one window, just run "souce /path/to/profile" from another. > Now I cant keep logging in and out frequently - is there a way of > propogating a variable throughout the system. No. I don't think current Unix IPC model allows that. > (I once used zsh 4 years back, do i recollect that this is possible in > zsh). Hmm. You sure? Binand -- Russian Roulette with Unix: while :; do kill $RANDOM &> /dev/null && break || sleep 1; done ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
