Environment variables

Environment variables come into play in various ways relative to Razor.

$PROJECTDIR

A variable used by SCCS to define the database archive. It is cleared by Razor so as not to confuse Razor operations.

$RAZOR_ACTION

Set to indicate why the script was called, and is formatted as either <operation>_BEFORE or <operation>_AFTER (e.g. PROMOTE_BEFORE). See "RAZOR_ATTR_FILE" on page 240 for related information.

$RAZOR_ATTR_FILE

For file introduction, this file permits overriding attributes selected by the user.

$RAZOR_CMD_LINE

Set by the razor program so that a script may sense where the origin of execution is.

$RAZOR_DOMAIN

Always set to DOMAIN_01.

$RAZOR_EDITOR

On UNIX systems¹, defines a script to be executed when browsing a file. This script can then invoke the editor of choice. See the example script $RAZOR_HOME/examples/razor_browse for implementation details.

$RAZOR_FILE

The file name.

$RAZOR_FILE_LIST

The list of selected items passed to a script invoked from the Commands menu.

$RAZOR_GROUP

The group name.

$RAZOR_HELP_DIR

The parameter RAZOR_HELP_DIR points to a directory which will have the `help' directory and all of its supporting files. If it is not set, the default help files in $RAZOR_HOME are used. Refer to "Custom help files" on page 217 on details of how to incorporate custom help files.

$RAZOR_HOME

Defines the location of the Razor distribution.

$RAZOR_INCREMENT_RELEASE

This parameter is available to the check-in before/after scripts and is set to 1 if a user is trying to increment the major release

$RAZOR_INFO_FILE

This parameter indicates the name of the temporary file containing attribute information in the form of an Info file. Since the database is not fully updated until after the AFTER script, those who want to obtain information about the introduction will need to pass this filename to the rz_toolbox function razor_learn_file, or parse this file themselves for the required information.

$RAZOR_ISSUES

If the related activity was associated with one or more issues, this environment variable will contain a space separated collection of the issue numbers.

$RAZOR_LICENSE_DIR

Defines the location of the Razor license and status information.

$RAZOR_LM_PORT

Overrides the default socket port the Razor license manager tries to connect to. The default port number is 16151 if RAZOR_LM_PORT is not defined. When connecting, the license manager tries several port numbers until a free port is found.

$RAZOR_PID

The process id of the application.

$RAZOR_PORT

Overrides the default socket port the Razor server tries to connect to. The default port number is 16152 if RAZOR_PORT is not defined. When connecting, the server tries several port numbers until a free port is found.

$RAZOR_TITLE

Where appropriate, this will be set to the text entered by the user for check-in, check-out, branch and revert functions.

$RAZOR_TMP

Users who set this parameter can change where temporary files are stored. Default value of RAZOR_TMP is /tmp.

$RAZOR_UNIVERSE_DIR

Defines the directory which contains the Razor database. Once all of the Razor environment parameters have been set, changing this value and restarting one of the Razor tools will allow users to change from one database to another.

¹ This feature is not supported on remote clients (UNIX or PC).