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Thread: how to set environment variable in suse 10.1 ? |
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39er
Cruncher Canada Joined: Aug 10, 2006 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It is sometimes the easy things which provide lots of head scratching. But I have been scouring through the documentation to find what the Boinc manager wants me to do to start the browser.
The question is: where should I set the PATH to my browser so that BOINC can find it and start it.? Thank you for assistance. 39er |
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This is from memory: I may be wrong...
The var is BROWSER. Set it (in bash) using export BROWSER=/whatever; You will have to drop this into the relevant startup script. .profile should do the trick. Please let us know if this doesn't work. |
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39er
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Well I tried several possibilities as follows:
if I look at the file in the /usr/bin directory it is not executable. I shows as @firefox and goes off to ..lib/firefox/firefox.sh according to midnight commander. But it ain't there.. if I look at the preferences of the firefox icon it shows as firefox %u if I type /usr/bin/./firefox into the run command it brings up the browser. However no luck in setting it up in the .profile fle. This firefox executable must be lurking somewhere but I have not found it yet.. Perhaps the variable BROWSER does not mean anything to suse. |
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