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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:18:13 -0400
From: "Matthew O. Persico" <matthew DOT persico AT verizon DOT net>
Subject: Re: Best place to put new envvars?
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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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