Re: How to set an env variable persisting user sessions/system reboot.

Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:21:24 +0530

Newsgroups	gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi.devel
Organization	Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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Bhopal Singh wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> I wanted to set an environment variable which can survive user session even
> the system reboot. 
> To explain it more, let say I set an env variable MY_ENV_VAR = "SOME value".
> Now I want to access this environment variable even if the linux user
> changes his shell or logs off and login again even in case system reboots.
> 

Fedora has a /etc/profile.d to drop such shell scripts in. Each .sh file
in this directory is executed when an user opens a login shell.

> And this I want to do in a C/C++ program.
> 

- Sandip


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