Greg, They are actually getting exported, but from within the context of the shell running the script, not from within your login shell's context. So they are only visible while that shell (and hence the script) is active. There's a way around this, but I can never remember how its done, its something to do with using exec I think. Regards Aaron On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:15:27PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > If I log in as a normal user, and have something like "export VAR='string'" in my '$HOME/.profile', that value exports just fine. > > However, if I try to export as a normal user from any other script besides $HOME/.profile, the values don't get exported, even though I can export them just fine if I do it by hand at a bash prompt. Can someone please explain why this is, and how can I change it? Thanks in advance. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
