Re: /etc/environment: syntax

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

> Hello,
> 
> the syntax in /etc/environment is documented as:
>    VAR=value
> 
> My questions:
> Can you specify several paths as value? (Are these paths delimited by 
> colons?)
> Can i specify an existing environment variable in value? (How is the 
> syntax there? $VAR or ${VAR} ?)

/etc/environment is sourced by the pam_env module of PAM.  See 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-
6.html#ss6.5.  Unfortunately it doesn't say much about /etc/environment 
except that in consists of VAR=VALUE pairs.  I guess you'll just have to 
experiment to see what happens if you try to use something more 
complicated.

Good luck,
Andrew.