Re: status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:54:48PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Well does this perhaps deserve it's own manpage? At least if it's not deprecated? This would make sense to have as a symlink to the pam_env manpage. Feel free to file a bug report against libpam-modules. Some

Re: status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Well does this perhaps deserve it's own manpage? At least if it's not deprecated? I barely found any real documentation about it (how it's intended to be used and so). It seems to be Some init-scripts on my system merely use it as a location for the local settings, e.g. console-screen.sh,

Re: status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 16:18 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's actually a bug that /etc/environment is no longer created by default; Tested a bit more and it seems to be created,... but only when installing the first time (i.e. when package was not installed before). Reinstalling doesn't create it

Re: status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 01:59:30PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 16:18 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's actually a bug that /etc/environment is no longer created by default; Tested a bit more and it seems to be created,... but only when installing the first

Re: status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christoph Anton Mitterer] Just wondered about the status of /etc/environment... It seems that this belongs to libpam... but is no longer created an deprecated or at least for providing local information, right? Debian Edu use it to set the global proxy settings. It is created during

Re: status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 08:06:40PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Christoph Anton Mitterer] Just wondered about the status of /etc/environment... It seems that this belongs to libpam... but is no longer created an deprecated or at least for providing local information, right? Debian

status of /etc/environment?

2010-08-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Just wondered about the status of /etc/environment... It seems that this belongs to libpam... but is no longer created an deprecated or at least for providing local information, right? However,... some packages seem to still have a look at it, e.g. openssh (greped through my /var/lib/dpkg