[wplug] Environment Variables
Mackenzie Morgan
macoafi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 13:48:36 EDT 2008
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
apt-get moo
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