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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fetching variable from config file Post 302835985 by rafa_fed2 on Tuesday 23rd of July 2013 10:59:45 AM
Old 07-23-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
I would assume that /.profile is going to be the profile for the root user (and any other user that has home directory of /

You may not be able to use the value from $HOME in your cron job though.



Robin
So you mean i should use /.profile.i am in DEV enviroment .Hope it works in production tooSmilie

i followed your advice
PROFILE_PATH="/.profile"
But i am getting an error
/.profile not found
PROFILE_PATH=/.profile --this works fine though

rbatte please reply lol

Last edited by rafa_fed2; 07-23-2013 at 12:08 PM..
 

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INSTALL-MH(8)							     [nmh-1.5]							     INSTALL-MH(8)

NAME
install-mh - initialize the nmh environment SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/install-mh [-auto] [-check] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION
Install-mh is the nmh program to create the initial setup for a first-time nmh user. Install-mh lives in two places for historical rea- sons. The -auto option does things as automatically as possible and makes install-mh less chatty. The user is asked for the name of the directory that will be designated as the user's nmh directory. If this directory does not exist, the user is asked if it should be created. Normally, this directory should be under the user's home directory, and has the default name of ``Mail''. Install-mh writes an initial .mh_profile for the user. As with all nmh commands, install-mh first checks for the existence of the $MH environment variable since that gives the profile path if set. If it isn't set, the $HOME environment variable is consulted to determine the user's home directory. If $HOME is not set, then the /etc/passwd file is consulted. When creating the users initial .mh_profile, install-mh will check for the existence of a global profile /etc/nmh/mh.profile. If found, this will be used to initialize the new .mh_profile. The -check option can be used to check whether or not nmh has been installed. This can be used by other programs to determine whether or not nmh has been installed without their having to know the internals of nmh. FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile /etc/nmh/mh.profile Used to initialize user profile PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To set the user's nmh directory CONTEXT
With -auto, the current folder is changed to "inbox". MH.6.8 11 June 2012 INSTALL-MH(8)
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