On Friday, Jul 28th 2006 at 17:54 -0700, quoth bruce: =>hi.. => =>i've made a change to the "/etc/profile" file. as i understand it, the =>profile file is run for every user who logs in... => =>how can i verify/see a given env var that i set in the profile.. => =>i did: => foo ='abc' =>export foo => =>thanks Add a file in /etc/profile.d and call it localvars.sh In it, create a line that says: export foo=abc Note that there are no spaces around the equal. Saying set foo = bar is a legal bash statement that will set $1 $2 and $3 equal to foo, = and bar, which is not what you want. I AM ASSUMING that you are logging to a terminal and not running xdm/gdm/kdm. The game is totally different in that case.
