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From: Andrew Cid <andrew@accid.net>
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Subject: Setting global enviroment variables
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Hi all,

What's the best way of setting environment variables on FreeBSD
so that all users and daemons running from rc can see them?

I'd like to set PKGROOT to a custom package server, so that all users
and a couple of daemons that start from rc will use the new packages.

Cheers,


Andrew
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