On 03-Dec 09:01, nemo@cheeky.house.cx wrote: > 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. :) > > > > > > .../Nemo > > > > > [snip other answer} > > > > Just slip it in /etc/profile. > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong - but this is only for Bourne shells and compatible. > It wont set the environment for my personal zsh shell? For perl modules? > > All I want is to have *one* place to set this and then have it done with. > NOT have to set it in half a dozen places for different parts of the system, > and have the concern that sometime down the track that a new system component > will need to know about that environment, but wont know about it because it's > not been manually set. > > I would have thought this was a somewhat common need? And I was under the impression that is what /etc/profile is for. Every shell should source /etc/profile. Bash also sources /etc/bashrc and if a user, ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile. Am I completely wrong here? This seems to be a sane setup. Werther cron should source /etc/profile, I leave to the secure minded. Thomas
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