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Re: /etc/environment not read by su?



On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:07:39PM +0200, Reckhard, Tobias wrote:
> A SuSE 7.3 system I've still got around manages to do what I want, but I
> haven't been able to figure out how it's done there -- there isn't any
> /etc/environment, $http_proxy is defined in the notorious /etc/rc.config
> file, from which it must be read by some startup script that I haven't been
> able to identify yet.
> 
> However, I don't want to replicate SuSE's way of doing this, which is why
> I'm asking around here.
> 
> Any other ideas (besides using 'su -m')?

Just editing /etc/profile isn't good enough?

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