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Re: global environment variables?



On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:02:50PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
| On 03-Dec 01:23, nemo@cheeky.house.cx wrote:
| > This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an
| > environment for my cronjobs" but "how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for
| > the entire system", it doesn't actually help me much. :)
|
| [snip other answer}
| 
| Just slip it in /etc/profile.

This only works for shells that read /etc/profile (login shells).
What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for
apps run via the panel (that don't have a login shell).

-D

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