[Gllug] Best Way To Set Global Env Variables and Path?

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Mon Mar 10 15:19:35 UTC 2003


On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Andy Young wrote:

> What's the best way to make a path and environment variable evailable to
> every single user and process, cron task, interactive shell, the whole
> kaboodle? You get the picture!
> 
> I thought about kludging it by adding it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but reckon
> there must be a "proper" place for it?

/etc/profile is the file you want to edit.

Jason Clifford
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