[Wylug-discuss] Setting environment variable for service in Debian

[Graham Whaley]

I had a surf... looks like the recommended way is to create a file for
that service with the required settings, and pull it in in the script
- see:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44370/how-to-make-unix-service-see-environment-variables

 Graham

On 22 October 2015 at 10:17, David Morris <david.morris at 3gtelecoms.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Any idea how I set an environment variable for a service in Debian?
> I want to set the python path. This works fine when I SSH to my box and run
> "export PYTHONPATH=mypath" but this isn't available to services as it's only
> local to my shell.
> I'm presuming I can set the environment variables in the init.d config file
> for the service, but I can't see where.
>
> Thanks!
>
> David Morris
>
>
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