[wplug] Environment Variables

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:46 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> 
> Distro: Fedora Core 6 
> Shell: BASH
> 
> I no long seem to be able to permanently set or export environment
> variables.  Any change, var=varvalue and then export var, will only be
> in effect for the duration of the shell instance.  It will not be in
> effect for additionally opened terminals or if the terminal is closed
> and reopened.  I checked .bashrc and .bash_profile to see if they were
> overwriting the variables but that is not the case.  I tried this for
> both root and user.  The same condition occurs when I try to create a
> new variable.  It has not been a good week for me with any PC.

I'm pretty sure that's how it always works.  You have to add it to
your .bashrc to make them permanent.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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