Setting Env

[Garrett Cooper]

Drew Jenkins wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 1:02:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Setting Env
> 
> Drew Jenkins wrote:
> 
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/mysql/ not work for you?
> 
>> Why not source environment variables from an outside script / rc-file? 
>> It's better / smarter in the long run, IMHO.
> 
> Sounds great. Again, as I wrote in my last post, I don't know *exactly* what command needs to be entered!! I have tried this in the /etc/rc.conf file:
> 
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/mysql/
> --or--
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib/mysql/"
> --or--
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/mysql/
> 
> none of which work. I have tried creating a script and chmod +x in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d folder:
> 
> #!/bin/csh
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/mysql/
> 
> and that doesn't work, either. Would it be okay if I asked anyone out there to tell me *exactly* what I need to do to get this to be set on startup??
> TIA.
> Drew

The question is, what's failing (or not behaving as expected)?

-Garrett