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Re: Best place to put new envvars?


On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:12:30 -0700, David Rothenberger typed:
>?On 10/7/2005 6:01 PM, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
>
>>?I am sharing a Cygwin installation in a NetWare drive among a
>>?number of developers.
>>
>>?I want to put
>>
>>?export CVSROOT=:pserver:${USER}@ourbox.com:/home/cvs/repository
>>
>>?in one profile that is run by everyone AND I don't want it
>>?overwritten if I update Cygwin.
>>
>>?Where's the best place to stash this?
>>
>?Create a file in /etc/profile.d with a .sh extension. This will be
>?executed by /etc/profile. It won't be overwritten even if
>?/etc/profile
>?is (which will happen unless you modify /etc/profile yourself).

DUH! Of course. I have a an elaborate profile.d setup on my Linux box - I should have known better.
Sorry for wasting the badnwidth..
--
Matthew O. Persico



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