Re: definition of global variables

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

These look like environment variables.  The FILES section of the man 
pages for 'bash' and 'csh' both refer to 'global' initialization files 
found in /etc:  /etc/profile for 'bash'; and two files:  /etc/csh.cshrc 
and /etc/csh.login for 'csh'.

IIRC, these are also sourced by all the related shells, such as ksh 
using /etc/profile and tcsh using the the 'csh' files.

Bob

Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi list,
>    i would like to define global variables for all the user of a
> Debian system, for example the following:
>
> CERN=/usr/local/cernlib
> CERN_LEVEL=2005
> CERN_ROOT=/usr/local/cernlib/2005
> PATH=/usr/local/cernlib/2005/bin
> LDPATH=/usr/local/cernlib/lib
>
> Where do i have to put them? I was thinking of ld.so.conf and then run
> ldconfig. Is it the right choice? What about /etc/environment ?
>
> Regards,
> MC