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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:57:04 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015250225.daee33@mired.org>
To:        Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Rickard "Borgmäster" <doktorn@realworld.nu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System-wide environment variables
Message-ID:  <15484.58800.614850.436679@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <95467477@toto.iv>

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Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com> types:
> On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 18:03, Rickard Borgm=E4ster wrote:
> > Where should i put this? Into rc.conf.local or something maybe?

Since no one answered his original question, but got bogged down in
shells and startup scripts, I'll note that the correct answer is that
they go in /etc/login.conf. For instance, in the unmodified one, the
default user has the equivalent of

export MAIL=/var/mail/$USER BLOCKSIZE=K FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES

	<mike
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