Re: Re: Raspberry PI synchron
  By: KK4QBN to Digital Man on Fri Feb 16 2018 05:08 am

 >   Re: Re: Raspberry PI synchron
 >   By: Digital Man to KK4QBN on Thu Feb 15 2018 23:40:01
 >
 >  >> And though i've done this. anyway I look at it, when I try to load
 >  >> envorinment varaibles, even in a very simple script, EXCEPT for scfg,
 >  >> the SBBSCTRL environment will not set.
 >
 >  DM> What do you mean "EXCEPT for scfg"? There's nothing special about scfg.
 >
 > I guess I stated what I was trying to say wrong, you told me to try on the
 > basc commandline.
 >
 > SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl && export SBBSCTRL && /sbbs/exec/scfg
 >
 > I did this, SCFG LOADED with no issues, not with the regular error message
 > stating "cannot find sbbs ctrl dir, or whatever"
 >
 > ANY WAY I try to set SBBSCTRL, either on the cmdline, through a script,
 > through the . files, profile, etc. ALWAYS at the beginning of loading the
 > sbbs executable it gives the error, SBBSCTRL EVIRONMENT NOT SET. It DOES NOT
 > seem to bother the FUNCTION of sbbs itself.
 >
 >  DM> On what OS?
 >
 > debian x64, I thought I stated that earlier. it does'nt matter if I did or
 > did'nt at this point.
 >
 >  DM> On Ubunu Linux or Debian Linux:
 >
 > It did not give this issue on Ubuntu or even MINT, using the DEBIAN repo and
 > not the ubuntu.

I see no difference in behavior in regards to /etc/profile and environment
variables between Debian and Ubuntu. I run both.

 >  DM> 1. edit the file /etc/profile
 >  DM> 2. after the last line, add one line: export SBBSCTRL=/path/to/ctrl
 >
 >  M> 4. at a terminal command prompt, type: echo $SBBSCTRL
 >
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$ echo $SBBSCTRL
 >
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$
 >
 > it is not working.
 >
 > here is the last few lines of /etc/profile
 >
 >   done
 >   unset i
 > fi
 > export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl/

And you rebooted while it was that way?

 > It has been like this.
 >
 >  DM> You don't need 2 different steps (ENV_VAR = val, then export) you can
 >  DM> do it with a single operation: export ENV_VAR = val, for example:
 >
 > Thanks for educating me on that.. I used to be better versed in scripting
 > but lost it through time. I have now somplfied all that.
 >
 >  DM> Maybe try "export SBBSCTRL=/path/to/ctrl" instead.
 >
 > I believe I've tried all different variations.. still trying.. I'm amazed
 > the BBS is running :)
 >
 >  >> it is also setup in /etc/prfile btw.
 >
 > that was a typo BTW.
 >
 >  DM> Works for me. What flavor of Linux are you using?
 >
 > Debian
 >
 >  DM> $ export HELLO=Hi!
 >  DM> $ echo $HELLO
 >  DM> $ env <- shows all environment variables, you'll see HELLO there too
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$ export HELLO=Hi
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$ echo $HELLO
 > Hi
 >
 > I got HI but no Hello..

"HELLO" was the name of the environment variable. "Hi!" was the content. No
where did I suggest you should have "got Hello".

 >  DM> $ export HELLO=Hi!
 >  DM> $ echo $HELLO
 >  DM> $ env <- shows all environment variables, you'll see HELLO there too
 >
 >  DM> Now put this in a file, called hi.sh:
 >
 >  DM> export HELLO=Hi!
 >
 > Done..
 >
 >  DM> # unset HELLO <- remove the HELLO env var
 >  DM> # source hi.sh <- interpret the hi.sh script
 >  DM> # echo $HELLO <- Do you see Hi!? It worked
 >
 > output from this travesty
 >
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$ unset HELLO
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$ source hi.sh
 > bash: export: `HELLO-Hi!': not a valid identifier

You did something wrong. :-)

 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$ echo $HELLO
 >
 > kk4qbn@kk4qbn:~$
 >
 > Something is borked.
 >
 > not even trying the shebang no reason..
 >
 > Something is blocking env var from being stored to a point.. does it not
 > appear this way?

No. The reported error ("bash: export: `HELLO-Hi!': not a valid identifier")
suggests to me you have a typo.

 > Thanks for your hel Rob.. while others would call me an idiot, you spend the
 > time to help.. I used to be great with *nix environments and mainly run only
 > freeBSD and it was not as forgiving as a lot of these distros out now, I'm
 > getting older now, my memory suffer, and I cannot spend as much time at the
 > console because my health (lower half of body goes numb, plus get migraines)
 > but I do as good as I can, and I don't want to do this with windows.. Not
 > that I don't like windows, I do, it has its uses.. but I always have a
 > special place in my hard for linux and SBBS, and I apreciate your patience.

If it's not causing a problem, I suppose you can just shrug it off and continue
on, but I assure you: you can set environment variables a multitude of ways on
Debian and Ubuntu Linux and you've shown that at least *some* of those ways are
working as they should and the others that aren't working for you are likely
due to user error.

Here's a FAQ on it:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117467/how-to-permanently-set-environm
ental-variables#117470

                                            digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #12:
Nigel Tufnel: Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours?
Norco, CA WX: 56.3øF, 30.0% humidity, 0 mph SSW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
--- SBBSecho 3.03-Win32