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


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