From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:08:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611031508.36261.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da5cd1900611030418o48f5b8d0x2a922317620683a1@mail.gmail.com>
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
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-03 12:18 [gentoo-user] source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions Marco Calviani
2006-11-03 13:08 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-11-03 13:41 ` Marco Calviani
2006-11-03 13:22 ` [gentoo-user] " F.J.Zhao
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