Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:54:38 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Scott Worthington <SWorthington@hsag.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Location of vinum /var/tmp/vinum_history Message-ID: <19991101135438.34003@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <19991030164832.A12516@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 04:48:32PM %2B0100 References: <s8170041.022@internal.hsag.com> <19991030164832.A12516@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Saturday, 30 October 1999 at 16:48:32 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Scott Worthington wrote: > >> Okay, I see that you can set the environment >> variable VINUM_HISTORY to point to the >> correct location of the file. >> >> How do you set an environment variable at boot >> time? I am assuming that at boot up the vinum >> module reads VINUM_HISTORY. > > You should be able to put it in /etc/rc.conf, e.g. > > VINUM_HISTORY=/foo; export VINUM_HISTORY > > though I have never tried this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Yes, that should work, modulo location. You shouldn't put it in /etc/rc.conf, though: first, you shouldn't change that, and secondly it would only apply to the startup if you put it there. Try /etc/profile instead. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19991101135438.34003>