/etc/environment, variables aren't expanded

[Florian Diesch]

TomasN <nechtom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dne Saturday 17 May 2008 04:47:26 Cameron Hutchison napsal(a):
>
>> I personally think /etc/environment is rather useless for the reasons
>> you've just found. It is too simplistic to just have KEY=VAL lines is a
>> lot of cases.
>
> Me too.
> I was just wondering why so many people recommend to put variables there.

* /etc/environment works with every shell, not just with sh-like shell 
  like /etc/profile does

* /etc/profile only gets read by login shells. For graphical logins
  you don't get a login shell so it's up to the X session
  configuration to read /etc/profile. It seems that gdm and kdm are
  doing this with most Linux distributions, but others may not.



   Florian
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