[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
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Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de
http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ leutloff@debian.org
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