>>>>> Frank Barknecht writes: > I would like to add that ssh also reads /etc/environment and expects > name=value pairs there only. So if you have lines like:
> PAGER=less > export PAGER > in /etc/environment, ssh complains about a bad syntax with this: > Bad line in /etc/environment: export PAGER > So even though I only use bash on my system, I can't easiliy keep > environment-vars in /etc/environment without getting ugly warnings by ssh. However, it appears that lines like: export PAGER=less will at least be accepted without error messages by ssh; you just end up with "export PAGER=less" in your environment, which seems to be harmless. After a very superficial test, it appears that you can have an /etc/environment that contains BOTH forms, and get the best of both worlds with only minor side effects: export PAGER=less PAGER=less This is as close as I have come to getting /etc/environment to work as advertised as a single location for global environment settings. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902