On Friday 03 November 2006 14:18, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > i have a question regarding the use of global environmental > variables: as root i've changed some variables inside /etc/env.d. > I've updated the database with env-update and sourced them with > source /etc/profile. For this changes to become available to all > users i have to issue a source /etc/profile for every users AND also > for future sessions. The changes become "standard" only if i reboot > the machine. How is it possible to perform this changes for every > users without rebooting?
I think you misunderstand the shell start up sequence, a reboot has nothing to do with this topic at all. If a setting is in /etc/profile then it will be used for every *new* session for every user from here on out. You only have to source /etc/profile in sessions that are already running when you change any of the shell start up files. alan -- [email protected] mailing list
