[LBo] Chap 7.2.3 /etc/profile

[Ethan Jarlewski]

Hi

2006/12/22, Geoff Jones <geoffjones99 at ntlworld.com>:
> [...] I cannot work out where other general variables
> like HOME, LOGNAME and TERM are assigned values?
>

Are these three assigned in a script?

I always thought that they were determined on login (HOME in
/etc/fstab, LOGNAME by the name you logged in with, and TERM by the
type of terminal you use.

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