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Date:      Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:31:27 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Andrew Cid <andrew@accid.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting global enviroment variables
Message-ID:  <47FBABEF.4090107@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080408171819.GA56838@farnborough.darq.net>
References:  <20080408171819.GA56838@farnborough.darq.net>

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Andrew Cid wrote:
> 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.

/etc/login.conf -- don't forget to run cap_mkdb after editing it.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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