Best place to put new envvars?

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Sat Oct 8 02:12:00 GMT 2005


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).

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