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Date:      Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:55:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        msherman77@yahoo.com (Michael S)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: environment variables
Message-ID:  <200504101855.j3AItZt2025070@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050410180518.46745.qmail@web88211.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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> Hi all.
> In order to set an environment variable at boot time,
> something like http_proxy, where would I do that?

Depends somewhat on what it is and what it is for.
But, many things you can set in /etc/rc.conf.

Things specific to certain applications should probably be done
either in their config files or in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xxx.sh script.

////jerry
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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