Is it the user-configurable sample file to be modified during an installation or it’s the specially crafted file to be used as-is?
May I change it to look like “VAR=value” pairs?
What may get affected in the QNX4 after such a change?
Tony.
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:44:45 +0400, Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:
Is it the user-configurable sample file to be modified during an installation or it’s the specially crafted file to be used as-is?
May I change it to look like “VAR=value” pairs?
What may get affected in the QNX4 after such a change?Tony.
A typo: I meant to ask about /etc/default/login file.
Tony.
Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:
T > On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:44:45 +0400, Tony <mts.spb.suxx@mail.ru> wrote:
Is it the user-configurable sample file to be modified during an installation or it’s the specially crafted file to be used as-is?
May I change it to look like “VAR=value” pairs?
What may get affected in the QNX4 after such a change?Tony.
T > A typo: I meant to ask about /etc/default/login file.
T > Tony.
I believe that this file indicates to ‘login’ what environment variables
are to be preserved across log-ins.
If you add new pairs then they will be preserved across log-ins too.
If you remove a pair, then they won’t be preserved.
To “assign” new VAR=value pairs either put them in /etc/profile to take
effect for all users or put it in ~/.profile for each user that you want
those new pairs to be effective on.
On 1 Oct 2004 21:34:38 GMT, Bill Caroselli <qtps@earthlink.net> wrote:
I believe that this file indicates to ‘login’ what environment variables
are to be preserved across log-ins.
Aha!
That’s why those variables are just mentioned there but not initialized?
If you add new pairs then they will be preserved across log-ins too.
As you can see - theese are not pairs, just variable names.
To “assign” new VAR=value pairs either put them in /etc/profile to take
effect for all users or put it in ~/.profile for each user that you want
those new pairs to be effective on.
So, it is absolutely wrong to modify QNX’s /etc/default/login to look more UNIX-like? I need it when porting thing like SSH to QNX4…
Tony.
On 1 Oct 2004 21:34:38 GMT, Bill Caroselli <qtps@earthlink.net> wrote:
I believe that this file indicates to ‘login’ what environment variables
are to be preserved across log-ins.
Aha!
That’s why those variables are just mentioned there but not initialized?
If you add new pairs then they will be preserved across log-ins too.
As you can see - theese are not pairs, just variable names.
To “assign” new VAR=value pairs either put them in /etc/profile to take
effect for all users or put it in ~/.profile for each user that you want
those new pairs to be effective on.
So, it is absolutely wrong to modify QNX’s /etc/default/login to look more UNIX-like? I need it when porting thing like SSH to QNX4…
Tony.