On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:51:27PM -0800, Peter Hicks wrote: > On Sunday 02 December 2001 14:01, dman wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:02:50PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > > | On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > | > This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an > > | > environment for my cronjobs" but "how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for > > | > the entire system", it doesn't actually help me much. :) > > | > > | [snip other answer} > > | > > | Just slip it in /etc/profile. > > > > This only works for shells that read /etc/profile (login shells). > > What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for > > apps run via the panel (that don't have a login shell). > > > > -D > > What about /etc/environment? >
I put "FOO=blah" in /etc/environment and restarted crond, then I setup a small script executed from cron which simply did `echo $FOO` Result? nope. I'm afraid /etc/environment isn't that global. .../Nemo
