On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > It's been a long time since I set up my last computer (RH7.3...yeah, it's > been that long ago) and I can't remember how I set my ISP's NNPT server > name and made it persistant. I can use "export and run my > news reader immediately after with no problem. As soon as I exit the > reader (slrn) and close the xterm window the server name is lost. > > In RH the variables are in ~/.bashrc but ubuntu doesn't have this file. > There is a ~/.profile file that appears to be the equivalent. Is this > typical of debian based distros or do I have a problem other than failed > memory (mine...not the computer's)? Just create it... http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/book/node217.html -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss