Re: [SLE] Environment variables

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 19:47, Art Fore wrote:

So would I creat a profile.local with only "PGDATA=/home/postgres/data" as the only line in it?

No. You need to export the variable too: echo 'export PGDATA="/home/postgres/data"' >> /etc/profile.local ;) Note: only creating this file will not affect current shells. It will only affect newly created shells. It might be necessary to logout of KDE or GNOME, or even to go briefly to runlevel 1... Cheers, Leen