Re: Ilugd-dev Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1

Hi All,

Abhijit, Sandip, Anurag thanks for you replies. 

I'm aware of the solutions however none of them is a full proof solution for
my desired scenario.

>From Abhijit
>About the best you can do is to put "export X=Y" in ~/.profile

But this is shell specific. So consider the following scenario:

I did this for the current shell used by the user [e.g. bash and I make
entry in .bash_profile], but later on user changed his shell to some other
shell? [may be ksh, sh or csh whatever]. 

Can you suggest some generic solution under the above scenario?

> From Sandip
>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.

Whatever solution I suggest has to be generic enough to support at least
RedHat[Fedora is desktop release from RedHat with best of my knowledge],
SuSe, Novell.. etc..

>From Anurag
>why dont u define ur variable in .loginrc or .bashrc or .profile and read
>that variable using getenv or environ datastructure.

This solution would not help me. Please refer the above mentioned scenario.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks and Regards,
~Bhopal
The life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful!!!