'export' does not work in FC7?

[asadujjaman]

Hi, I need to have an environment variable global for all the shells. So I am doing this-

$ MY_VAR='some value'
$ export MY_VAR

now if i close the current terminal and open up another and type-

$ echo $MY_VAR

just a blank line prints. So, export doesn't work? I am using FC7. Is it a bug then?
What to do..?

[daark.child]

export is working as it should. If you want the variable to be permanent, then put your export statement it in /etc/profile, ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile.

[scm]

export tells the shell that the variable is to be inherited by all subprocesses. The exported variable disappears when the shell it's set in is terminated.