On Thu, 15 May 1997, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote:
>"Kendrick" == Kendrick Vargas <kvarga01_at_fiu.edu> writes:
> Kendrick> well, this can be a problem. Sun OS's (in my experience)
> Kendrick> don't care what shell you specify for your .xinitrc or
> Kendrick> .xsession, Solaris will always process it as a /bin/sh
> Kendrick> script. Besides, you can set environment variables inside a
> Kendrick> shell script. It's not hard to add a line like
>
> Kendrick> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> Kendrick> or something like that, but even doing this, it doesn't
> Kendrick> work...
>
> ...probably because it's not valid Bourne Shell.
>
> export VAR=value
>
> only works in ksh (and zsh and bash)
>
> if it's plain sh you have to do
>
> VAR=value
> ...
> export VAR VAR2 VAR3
Well, I meant to type that... I've tried every single which way... It took
alot of beating of me and my sysadmin's brains to figure that one out :)
-peace
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Received on Wed May 14 1997 - 17:03:17 BST