On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:00:24PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > In the past I have seen a proposal for /etc/environment. I would really > like it if you could setup any environment variable here (that can then > be overriden by the users startup file). That way I can also set MAIL, > MAILDIR, and MAILTMP to good values for my Qmail setup as well as insert > /usr/local/bin in everybodies Path without worrying about what files I > may have missed.
Agreed. This would be great. > Somewhere, just recently, I think I saw a thread where people where > against the idea, because it was incompatable with the rest of Unix. I > strongly disagree. If it is really that important, it should be easy to > enable/disable the mechanism as required. If you really wanted to jump through hoops, you could always leave /etc/enviroment empty, right? Mike Stone
