Re: Setting environment variables when using the REXEC start method
From: Dave Pelletier (
)
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 09:07:38 EDT
By default the rexec protocol won't source the .profile.
It depends on how you are starting the applications. Some Xclients such as
xterm support the -ls switch. This creates a login shell which does source
the profile.
Using xterm as an example you could also try the following:
source .bash_profile ; /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display @d&
Dave Pelletier
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Subject: [EXCEEDUSERS] Setting environment variables when using the REXEC
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This may be more of a UNIX question than an Exceed one. We have people using
Exceed to run SAS software on a Solaris 8 machine, working in various
different areas and consequently using different Xstart files. We have now
installed an ODBC driver to enable SAS to connect to ODBC compliant
databases but this requires that certain environment variables are set.
Because we are using REXEC as our start method, the /etc/profile and
$HOME/.profile scripts are not run and so it makes no difference defining
the environment variables in them. Equally, we could include the definitions
in the Xstart command line but, as there are so many different Xstart files
being used, we can't guarantee that we'll pick them all up.
Is there any way of ensuring that environment variables are set by default
in an REXEC session?
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