[CCed to the maintainers of xbase, ssh, login and base-files] Hello, this is a concentrated afford to put all environment variables on one central place in a Debian System (set from our users). This place already exists: /etc/environment. It's used by login and ssh already. Only xdm don't do this at the moment. /etc/login.defs contains the following lines: <------- # # If this file exists and is readable, login environment will be # read from it. Every line should be in the form name=value. # ENVIRON_FILE /etc/environment <------- Can some package, i.e. the base-files, provide a appropriate default config file (=empty?) including a man page!? The xbase maintainer has gotten a short patch from Andreas Jellinghaus to support the /etc/environment file with xdm, too. It would be very good to be able to set the environment variables on one place for all applications. (Then COAS and the boot-floppies has only to modify one file, i.e. for the preferred language) Thanks Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ leutloff@debian.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/
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