Environment variables (it was Re: Gridsphere deployment)

[Alex Janssen]

Leandro Doctors said the following on 02/19/2008 09:17 PM:
> Am Di 19 Feb 2008 schrieb John DeCarlo:
>   
>> Did you make sure that all environment variables are defined in places
>> where they will persist from one session to another?
>>     
> Nop. I have to re-define them at every login. Mmmmmmm
>
> I've found this[0]:
> [...]
>   
>> 5.4 Systemwide environment configuration
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> There is NO DEFAULT WAY of setting the variables in Debian
>>     
> Is this also valid for (Debian-based) Ubuntu?
>
>
> Where should I define the variables so they propagate and persist to all 
> existing and future users?
> (This is something I've wondering for ages...)
>
> I know there's the ~./bash_profile file or similar, but that works only for 
> one user...
>
>
> Cheers,
> L
>
> [0]: http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/Maintenance-sysadmin.html
>
>   
/etc/profile

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