[Info-ingres] error trying to use ing_set on Linux

Roy Hann specially at processed.almost.meat
Mon Mar 7 15:09:05 UTC 2016


Allan Biggs wrote:

> I want to set "ing_set" on a Linux box just for the current job (I will 
> unset it after the job has run). 
>
> Presumably the error here mean that only the Ingres installation account 
> can use ingsetenv and set it globally?
>
> Is there a way around this on Linux? I am trying to set up ing_set in the 
> current bash script and then delete it when the script exits. 

It already works the way you want (in Linux, other unixen, and on
Windows)

If you set ING_SET in your local environment (i.e. export ING_SET='...'
in your script) it overrides ING_SET in the global symbol table.



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