Re: RFC 114 (v2) Perl resource configuration

[Michael G Schwern]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:42:32PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>   >> i think an environment var might be a good way. if it is set, it is the
>   >> file(s) to preload before running your code.
> 
>   TC> You've got PERL5OPT.
> 
> but that is the user's to set. PERL_PRELOAD allows the admin to globally
> set (in the system shell rc file) the rc files that perl will load.

Like any other environment variable which the admin wants to be
everywhere, put it in /etc/profile.  A well configured system will
handle it from there.

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