On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:24, Pete French wrote: > I'm kind of embarassed to have to ask, as this should surely be very > simple, but I cant think of anywhere to set system-wide environment > variables which all processes will have. I've only ever done this in shell > profiles before and I cant think of anywhere global to set something like > this. I tried 'man environ' and similar but it doesnt help
Not sure you can actually.. Setting it in login.conf might do almost what you want. Although in the context of this discussion you could add it to the mysql user login script I imagine. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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