[YLUG] PERL5LIB

[Jess Wardman]

Here: http://modperlbook.org/html/3-9-2-2-Using-the-PERL5LIB-environment-variable.html

would seem to disagree.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Patrick Dupre<pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello Roger,
>
> You are right, but PERL5LIB does not behave like that !
> I am using bash (or sh), and PERL5LIB is just not exported like the
> other variables, it appears to be resetted by gnome-terminal to a value
> sitting is /etc/profile.d/atrpms.sh (it I understand right).
>
>
>
>
>> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:36:44PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>
>>> I wanted to modify PERL5LIB variable (which is easy) and then
>>> I wanted to it exported when running a new gnome-terminal, but it
>>> appears that ever gnome-terminal reset PERL5LIB to the
>>> original value probably resulting from profile.d/atrpms.sh
>>>
>>> How can I control a lot better the  PERL5LIB environment variable ?
>>
>> As you would for any environment variable, make sure it's exported
>> into the environment in your shell's configuration file.  You haven't
>> told us what your shell is, so you should read the documentation for
>> your shell.  As an example, my zsh configuration is in ~/.zshrc,
>> which includes lines such as
>>
>>  export DEBEMAIL="Roger Leigh <rleigh at debian.org>"
>>
>> bash uses ~/.profile ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile, and you can use
>> similar syntax in them (see the documentation for which one to
>> alter).
>>
>> If you want to modify it system wide, you can set it up with PAM
>> (see /etc/security/pam_env.conf and possibly also /etc/environment)
>> using pam_env.so in /etc/pam.d/).  Probably set up automatically by
>> your distribution.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Roger
>>
>>
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