On 9/13/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dom on 12/09/05 12:20, wrote: > > SO I need to change system variables TMPDIR, TEMP and TMP... how > > should I do that? > > One source tells me to change .bash_profile from my (and every other > > user's if I want to do this as the system default) home folder by > > putting 'export TMPDIR=[path]' in it, BUT > > another source tells me that /etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc and > > ~/.bash_logout are standard scripts that are executed at various times > > and ~/.bashrc is executed when bash is launched. > > So now I'm not sure which one to change, .bashrc or .bash_profile... > > Can somebody tell me? > > > > BTW, is this the only way of setting system default variables or I > > missed something? > > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in > /etc/profile since all users' profile include that. > > I expect there are many other ways of achieving this as well, but that's > what I'd do.
Thanks, and if I'd wish to separate tmp files for different users in different folders (just for TMPDIR var) would ~/.bashrc settings take precedence over the system default settings in /etc/profile or not? Dom
