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Permanent Environment Variable for all users
I want to have all users on the system to have an environment variable named SPI that points to /usr/local/share_ideas directory. How do I do it?
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Installing packages and tools on a local non-standard directory
TLDR: What environment variables should I update to guarantee that my system has access to everything a package provides when building it on a non-traditional path?
I usually don't have root access ...
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Why is uname -M returning an empty string?
On the exact same machine (AIX 6.1), in 2 different login shells (both ksh), with different user IDs, I can do uname -M; in one shell I get the system model. In the other shell I get BLANK! The only ...
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Effect if any of changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH environnment variable on emacs fonts?
The rendering of my emacs fonts changes if I define a specific list of directories under the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable just before I call emacs. I changed this because I wanted to use emacs ...
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How to print shell variables and values to be able to copy/paste them?
In Bash 4.2.25, the set and env output is not escaped, so shell escapes and any non-printable characters won't be copy-pasteable. Take for example this shell session:
$ export foo=$'a\nbar=\baz'
$ ...
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Why ssh -nq -t can't see my environment variable?
I am executing a command on remote machine with -t flag ( to prevent the command from 'blocking' ) the prompt (somehow it works that way). So I am using ssh -nq -t root@ip but with this, the script ...
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Paths in my bash profile do not work!
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/Users/rodrigoprugue/Desktop/CRUNCH:~/phreeqc/bin:$PATH
export PARFLOW_DIR=~/parflow/parflow.r605/
export SILO_DIR=~/parflow/silo-4.7.2/
export ...
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Detecting X session in a bash script (.bashrc etc.)
Recently I put xset b off to my .bashrc. Now I'm annoyed by the error thet pops up when I log in via tty or via ssh, i.e. outside X session.
First thing that came in my mind was [[ -z "$SOME_VAR" ]] ...
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Environment variable does not seem to work in sudo
I use apt behind a firewall, so I specify a proxy in the http_proxy environment variable.
What I have done is added the following line to both .profile and .bashrc (for good measure) of the root ...
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Environment of another user in a child process
I have a parent process running as 'root' user. After fork(), execl() and setuid()/setgid(), the child process is started as another OS user (say user1).
Printing the environment shows that this is ...
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Colon breaks the variable subsitution [closed]
I am trying to lookup some C functions so that I could debug while using strace. So I setup a bash function to look it up in firefox (or links), but the substitution falls apart with : and escaping ...
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Backup to a synology NAS with bup
I am trying to make a remote backup to my Synology NAS (DSM 4.1) using bup.
I compiled bup on my NAS from source, did there:
BUP_DIR=/volume1/public/Backups/bup bup init
Initialized empty Git ...
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How to print apparently hidden environment variables?
Environment variables can be shown with env; but, some are not shown. For example...
echo $EUID might produce as result of 1000 yet
env | grep EUID produces no result.
What is this type of variable? ...
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Prevent SSH client passing TERM environment variable to server?
I'm currently using Fedora 18 gnome-terminal, then started tmux multiplexer in it. After I connected to a CentOS 5 server via ssh command, I find:
ls result has no color
tmux, screen, hexedit, htop ...
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How do I set an environment variable for sudo in MacOS?
I have installed ServiceMix on my machine, and am trying to start it. The startup script is called start.sh. When I did ./start.sh, it gave me a Permission Denied message. So I used sudo ./start.sh, ...
