Re: Setting a Perl Environmental Variable on Boot-Up

2004-03-20 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
George Yolland wrote: John> Is there a way on a Linux machine to set some environmental John> variables Is there a similar way to do this in perl. I'm concerned with running as cron jobs where the environment is limited. Is it true that everything is already on the Internet? http://www.devdai

Re: Setting a Perl Environmental Variable on Boot-Up

2004-03-20 Thread George Yolland
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "John" == John Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Is there a way on a Linux machine to set some environmental John> variables I have a related question. In a bash script I can source a file to the environment. Like . .profile Is there a similar way to do this in

Re: Setting a Perl Environmental Variable on Boot-Up

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Krahn
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > > "John" == John Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> Is there a way on a Linux machine to set some environmental > John> variables > > By the way, it's "environment variables", not "environment*al* variables". > Unless you're having a "'mental" lapse. :

Re: Setting a Perl Environmental Variable on Boot-Up

2004-03-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "John" == John Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Is there a way on a Linux machine to set some environmental John> variables By the way, it's "environment variables", not "environment*al* variables". Unless you're having a "'mental" lapse. :) Just saying thsi publicly to stop the bad

Re: Setting a Perl Environmental Variable on Boot-Up

2004-03-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Greetings, > > Is there a way on a Linux machine to set some environmental > variables on machine boot-up that are automatically available > to all my perl scripts from the environment? > > For example say I have a Common_Output_Area which my system administrators > are frequently changing on