topic Re: Environment variable in Operating System - HP-UX

Environment variable

kunjuttan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:16:46 GMT

Hi,
As per the requirement of Application Team,I am trying to change an env variable (CPIC_MAX_CONV) to 5000 which is now 500.I issued th command "setenv CPIC_MAX_CONV 5000.It is working fine and getting changed.But once I log off and relogin ,it is again changing to 500 itself.How to solve this issue???

Re: Environment variable

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:34:07 GMT

hi,

because the viariable is set only for your current shell.

an example how to change the variables :

http://kb.iu.edu/data/acar.html

mikap

Re: Environment variable

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:36:58 GMT

it depends on which shell you use;
check it out
# echo $0

Re: Environment variable

kunjuttan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:55:21 GMT

Thanks...But what should I do to fix this???

Re: Environment variable

Steven Schweda — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:09 GMT

> [...] But what should I do to fix this???

Read better?

> it depends on which shell you use; [...]

From your "setenv", I'd guess that you're
using a C shell, so you might wish to put
that "setenv" command into your "~/.cshrc"
file. Other shells may use different
start-up command files (and different syntax
to set an environment variable).

man

Re: Environment variable

Dennis Handly — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:33:56 GMT

>How to solve this issue?

Where are you setting it to 500? Just change that place.

That may be in the file Steven mentioned or elsewhere.