On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, dan nessett<[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand the point you are making. If an MW administrator can set > environmental variables, then, of course, what you suggests works. However, > Brion mentions in his Tues, Aug 11, 10:09 email that not every MW > installation admin can set environmental variables and Aryeh states in his > Tues, Aug. 11, 10:09am message that some MW administrators only have FTP > access to the installations they manage. So, as I understand it some > administrators cannot use the tactic you describe.
If they can run commands on the command line, then they can use environment variables. If they can't, then your suggestion doesn't help. > If there are administrators who can execute command lines, but cannot set > environmental variables (e.g., they are confined to use a special shell) There aren't. That would make no sense. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
