env vars.. /etc/profile

[bruce]

hi haluk...

i had already tried the 
  echo $foo.... 

it simply returned a blank line!!


-----Original Message-----
From: Haluk Tunali [mailto:haluk.fedora at tunali.org]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 5:56 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: env vars.. /etc/profile


echo $foo

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: env vars.. /etc/profile
> From: "bruce" <bedouglas at earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, July 28, 2006 8:54 pm
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> hi..
> 
> i've made a change to the "/etc/profile" file. as i understand it, the
> profile file is run for every user who logs in...
> 
> how can i verify/see a given env var that i set in the profile..
> 
> i did:
>   foo ='abc'
> export foo
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
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