Changeset 2897 in MondoRescue

Timestamp:

Oct 20, 2011, 4:57:22 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

• Fix #505 by documenting environment variables

Location:

branches/2.2.9/mondo-doc

Files:

• mondoarchive.8 (modified) (1 diff)
• mondorestore.8 (modified) (1 diff)

branches/2.2.9/mondo-doc/mondoarchive.8

@@ -373 +373 @@
 support questions.
 
+.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+.IR ARCH
+This variable is passed to the environment by mondoarchive so that 
+parted2fdisk.pl is aware of the underlying hardware architecture.
+
+.IR MONDO_SHARE
+This variable is passed to the environment by mondoarchive so that 
+mindi is aware that it's called from it and act accordingly. It contains
+the shared directory for the mondo package.
+
+.IR PATH
+This variable is modified internally by mondoarchive so that /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
+are appended to it systematically in order to find the required tools.
+
+.IR TMPDIR
+This variable is used, if defined, as the target directory to create 
+all the temporary files needed during the operation (not the scratch files)
+
+.IR TMP
+This variable is used, if defined and if TMPDIR is not defined, as the target 
+directory to create all the temporary files needed during the operation 
+(not the scratch files)
 
 .SH NOTES

branches/2.2.9/mondo-doc/mondorestore.8

@@ -196 +196 @@
 and moved under /var/log at the end.
 
+.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+.IR TMPDIR
+This variable is used, if defined, as the target directory to create 
+all the temporary files needed during the operation (not the scratch files)
+
+.IR TMP
+This variable is used, if defined and if TMPDIR is not defined, as the target 
+directory to create all the temporary files needed during the operation 
+(not the scratch files)
+
+.IR dirimg
+This variable is setup by the rcS script to store the network remote directory in PXE mode.
+(managed internally)
+
+.IR imgname
+This variable is setup by the rcS script to overwrite the prefix name in PXE mode.
+(managed internally)
+
+.IR netfsmount
+This variable is setup by the rcS script to store the network file system mount point in PXE mode.
+(managed internally)
+
+.IR MRUSBDEV
+This variable contains the device file of the USB device to restore from.
+(equivalent if the usb-dev parameter of the mondorescue config file)
+
 .SH NOTES
 A link to Mondo's HTML-based manual (by Bruno Cornec, Mikael Hultgren,