[Zope] Re: My Sad Tale Of Woe

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Thu Nov 30 13:07:31 EST 2006


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:52:40AM -0800, Nancy Donnelly wrote:
> From: Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com>
> 
> > What shell are you using? That's not how you set an environment
> > variable in any of the bourne-style shells (sh, bash, ksh).
> > For those, you would use:
> >
> > export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/zope/278/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH
> 
> 
> 
> I'm using bash. I tried export and it didn't recognize it. I thought set was the same. What do?

If the command:

 export FOO=bar

... does not work, AFAIK you can't possibly be running bash.

Try running "ps" with no arguments to be sure.  The first thing it
shows should be your current shell, with the program name identified
in the CMD column.

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Paul Winkler
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