On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Rene H. Larsen wrote: > The way that is done by default in > Debian (please correct me if this is no longer the case) is by this > segment of code: > > if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then > . /etc/environment > fi Looking at bash 2.02.1-1.8, there's no such thing in /etc/profile. Personally, my /etc/profile includes the following: set -a . /etc/environment set +a -- Raul