Providing Defaults to class/ scripts

Michael Goetze mgoetze at mgoetze.net
Fri Oct 16 01:08:18 CEST 2009


Hi,

> If you name your script 00foobar.source it will be executed first _and_ sourced,
> therefore all variable definitions from 00foobar.source will also be visible in
> all other scripts. You might need to export the variable to have it available in
> the entire FAI run, but that I'm not sure of.

AFAIR this doesn't work - fai-class runs in a subshell so any variables 
you export in class/*.source will only be available during fai-class 
execution. Workaround is to write a temporary file which you later 
source from class/SOMETHING.var.

Regards,
Michael


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