still in jaunty Note: OpenBSD does not consider missing man pages on configuration files to be minor, which is why I continue to enjoy sysadmin under OpenBSD more so than Ubuntu.
This is a sysadmin papercut: a minor defect that could be easily fixed which griefs nearly everyone who has to figure out a permanent place to put JAVA_HOME from what I can tell reading the forums. >From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables /etc/environment - This file is specifically meant for system-wide environment variable settings. It is not a script file, but rather consists of assignment expressions, one per line. Specifically, this file stores the system-wide locale and path settings. Does not explain when this file is read, as per the original bug report. And another thing. My preferred shell is zsh, not bash. It would be nice if some of the docs were less bash specific. -- /etc/environment lacks man page. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
