Environment variable

[kunjuttan]

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???

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

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

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

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

[kunjuttan]

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

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] 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

[Dennis Handly]

>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.