From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 12:45:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0176A16A41F for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875FD43D45 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:45:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 5188 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2006 23:45:11 +1100 Received: from 203-217-91-227.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.217.91.227) by bwise.net.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 22 Mar 2006 23:45:10 +1100 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:45:07 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Kenyon Ralph" Message-ID: <20060322234507.3ec7531a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <13d4d6bb0603220348m4aee6c81t4f136076eaea2d10@mail.gmail.com> References: <13d4d6bb0603220348m4aee6c81t4f136076eaea2d10@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.16; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is $PAGER defined? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:45:12 -0000 On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:48:50 -0800 "Kenyon Ralph" wrote: > If I define PAGER myself in /etc/profile, it is still set to "more" > upon login. I've done grep -R PAGER /etc and got nothing (except > /etc/profile of course, which apparently is being overridden). ~/.bashrc i believe its run after .profile (and the system wide /etc/profile), so it gets overriden. it may also depend on your shell of choice (bash v3 here) B