[Daniel Ruoso] > I've actually sent him an email but got no answer. I've posted in > debian-devel few days ago and nobody complained that GDM could source > /etc/environment in the init script. That's an one-line patch (already > tagged as patch in bts for more than a year)...
Remember that the file /etc/environment is not a shell script, it is a data file for the pam_env module. The format happen to look like a shell script, but it is not. See for example <URL:http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/1263> for a description of the format. If you want to pass the values on to forked program, this might be enough: for i in `cat /etc/environment`; do export $i; done It will probably not handle space in the content.
