Re: global environment variables?

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

> I tried /etc/environment - and that works for my login shells (bash
> as root, zsh as user) ... but isn't seen from scripts run from cron. 
> 
> Is there any recommended way to make a an environment truly global?
> Is there something I've missed?
> 

sorry, scripts do not inherit the environment.  You need to hack the scripts. 
Have a file in /etc/defaults/ called something like 'myenv' and in it set all
the variables you need.  Then in your scripts just do '. /etc/defaults/myenv'. 
This way they are all in one place.