Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:55:22 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [stupid question] setting env variables globally Message-ID: <9D00D54D-F7C9-4D38-973F-EB7A28933AC0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4718D7D4.2010604@gmail.com> References: <4718D7D4.2010604@gmail.com>
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On Oct 19, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Is there any way to set the default value of a enviromental variable > globally. Specifically I want JAVA_VERSION to default to "1.6" > unless > the user sets it other wise. By global I mean no matter how > something > is invoked (command line, script, GUI, IPC trigger, etc.) if it checks > the value of the var it gets the same value (and I want to do this > system wide) Setting variables in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc (respectively) will do it for the common shells; or perhaps you might look at /etc/ login.conf... -- -Chuck
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