~/.bashrc is good if you want to have variables for each user, but not for all the system. <div>On 11/21/06, ben darby <<a href="mailto:ben@cvrse.com">ben@cvrse.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">* Waqas Toor wrote: > Hi linuxers, > > issuing the printenv command shows some variables and their value or > simple echo $SHELL shows the path to my shell that i am using or that > is loaded at startup > > my question is that where is that file or script that has these things > hardcoded and are read at system startup ? some are from /etc/login.defs, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile to name a few -- ben darby -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFYskjaoRYju6rRWgRAvZRAJ4oGEgn443FpAzUag3T8QAsEBRpsQCgrO4i 9Q0cnTPkbwr8AexSvMhwDU0= =jFNt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>