> I tried /etc/environment - and that works for my login shells (bash > as root, zsh as user) ... but isn't seen from scripts run from cron. > > Is there any recommended way to make a an environment truly global? > Is there something I've missed? >
sorry, scripts do not inherit the environment. You need to hack the scripts. Have a file in /etc/defaults/ called something like 'myenv' and in it set all the variables you need. Then in your scripts just do '. /etc/defaults/myenv'. This way they are all in one place.
