Re: setting up environment variables

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 09/16/05

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    Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:25:38 +0100
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    Daniel B. on 15/09/05 17:55, wrote:
    >
    >> On 9/14/05, *Kai Grossjohann* <kai@emptydomain.de
    >> <mailto:kai@emptydomain.de>> wrote:
    >>
    >> Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com
    >> <mailto:adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>> writes:
    >>
    >> > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
    >> > /etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
    >>
    >> Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a
    >> similar program?
    >>
    >> I tried to get my ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile) read
    >> when logging in via [gkx]dm, but gave up long ago. Now I use
    >> startx...
    >
    >
    > Shouldn't global environment variables be set in /etc/environment?
    >
    > If you set them in /etc/profile, they won't be set for all shells,
    > will they?

    Is this a run-level distinction then? Is /etc/profile is only involved
    in setting up run-level 2?

    I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing?
    A linux thing? An X thing? 

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