Re: setting up environment variables

["Daniel B." <REMOVEdanielTHIS@fgm.com>]

> On 9/14/05, *Kai Grossjohann* <kai@emptydomain.de 
> <mailto:kai@emptydomain.de>> wrote:
>
>     Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com
>     <mailto:adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>> writes:
>
>      > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
>      > /etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
>
>     Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a
>     similar program?
>
>     I tried to get my ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile) read
>     when logging in via [gkx]dm, but gave up long ago.  Now I use startx... 

Shouldn't global environment variables be set in /etc/environment?

If you set them in /etc/profile, they won't be set for all shells,
will they?

Daniel