1PCP.ENV(5) File Formats Manual PCP.ENV(5)
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6 pcp.env - script to set Performance Co-Pilot run-time environment vari‐
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10 /etc/pcp.env
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13 The pcp.env script is sourced by assorted Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
14 scripts and utilities to define the PCP operating environment vari‐
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18 Typical usage of pcp.env in a script is as follows :
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20 #! /bin/sh
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22 # source the PCP environment variables
23 . /etc/pcp.env
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27 The full syntax and semantics of the pcp.conf file and the __pmGetCon‐
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30 If the file $HOME/.pcp/pcp.conf exists then this will be processed
31 after the system-wide pcp.conf file. This provides a mechanism to
32 selectively modify or augment the environment settings for PCP scripts,
33 which maybe useful if the scripts are run with sudo(1) which cleans the
34 environment of important settings that are required to ensure the cor‐
35 rect execution of the PCP scripts, e.g. $PATH or $PERL5LIB.
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38 The PCP_CONF environment variable specifies an alternative path to the
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42 PCPIntro(1), sudo(1), PCPIntro(3), PMAPI(3), __pmGetConfig(3) and
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