Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:12:30 -0700 From: David Rothenberger Subject: Re: Best place to put new envvars? In-reply-to: <200510721121.717487@mopxp> To: "Matthew O. Persico" Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <43472B0E.9000308@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200510721121 DOT 717487 AT mopxp> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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). -- David Rothenberger spammer? -> spam AT daveroth DOT dyndns DOT org GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF 2C5F C8E1 43DF B44F BA26 7F67 E734 Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/