Daniel B. wrote: > Shouldn't global environment variables be set in /etc/environment? For anything that comes in through PAM. But if it does not come through PAM then /etc/environment will have no effect. PAM is used for login shells and such. But not for /etc/init.d daemon startup for example. > If you set them in /etc/profile, they won't be set for all shells, > will they? The /etc/profile file is only used for Bourne-like shells such as sh, bash, ash, ksh, dash, zsh, etc. But for example if zsh is installed and /etc/zprofile exists then /etc/profile is not read. But in any case /etc/profile is not used for csh, tcsh, and other wierd shells. Basically there is no perfect way to set environment variables for all shells. But /etc/profile is pretty darn good and would probably cover 99.44% of the cases and all of the "normal" cases. Bob
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