Environment Variable For CVSROOT

[Karl Balsmeier]

Having installed CVS and created a repository in /usr/local/cvsrepos, I'd like to set the CVSROOT environment variable for all users, in /etc/profile.

What does the string look like if I were to add it to /etc/profile?

Is it sopmething like?:

CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsrepos

Or is there a command I can issue that will just update he /etc/profile with the given variable? big points.

-karlski

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

This would estabish an environmental variabe CVSROOT (when place in '/etc/profile' or '$HOME/.profile'):

# export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsrepos

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

If you do the change to /etc/profile all users will get it. There is no need to do that and potential pitfalls.

I would do this to keep things clean

modify the users .profile fiel

add this line at the end

CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsrepos

I really don't think the apache user needs this variable set. I know the spooladm user for openspool is a profile you NEVER want to mess with.

Caution should be used when adding to /etc/profile because all users use it.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

If you do the change to /etc/profile all users will get it. There is no need to do that and potential pitfalls.

I would do this to keep things clean

modify the users .profile fiel

add this line at the end

CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsrepos
export CVSROOT
I really don't think the apache user needs this variable set. I know the spooladm user for openspool is a profile you NEVER want to mess with.

Caution should be used when adding to /etc/profile because all users use it.

SEP