15 May 1997 B.Stephens_at_isode.com writes:
> kvarga01_at_fiu.edu said:
> > Besides, you can set environment variables inside a shell script.
> > It's not hard to add a line like
>
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> > or something like that, but even doing this, it doesn't work...
>
> As others have commented, that's the wrong syntax.
That syntax is fine when using bash.
>
> I put the line
>
> FOOBAR=froopy; export FOOBAR
>
> in my .xinitrc, and nowhere else (not in any of my .zshrc or other files, and
> it sure seemed to exist in xterms spawned from fvwm2 spawned from the
> .xsession/.xinitrc (which are the same file in my setup). I'm using Solaris
> 2.5.1, fvwm 2.0.45 and xdm.
I'd just like to comment that I have never had a problem with
environment variables and fvwm under Solaris or NetBSD. I start my X
session with `ssh-agent startx' to make a SSH_ environment variables
available to every program started by fvwm.
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Received on Thu May 15 1997 - 09:15:03 BST