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Other options

Options of the type variable= value which are neither standard options nor device-specific options, cause the respective variables to be set in the environment passed to init. The case of the variable name is preserved. (I.e. it's not automatically converted to upper case.)

Note that environment variables passed to init are typically available in system initialization scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.local), but they're not visible from ordinary login sessions, because the login program removes them from the user's environment.



Ross Biro
Sat May 20 13:51:22 PDT 1995