From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rfdp6-0004Hf-8o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:40:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D865921C05D; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5CC21C05D for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC61380404 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:39:17 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:39:11 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing Message-ID: <20111227203911.15f64958@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <107665db4efb8cf1609660ae0001b51d.squirrel@webmail.cs.wisc.edu> <4EF984F5.5030701@hadt.biz> <201112271145.49400.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EF9F6D6.9060000@hadt.biz> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs4 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/7UouIvpqwhlaMbND5tpJzRa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: bd3c914d-bafc-43d8-82cd-b3b244953f05 X-Archives-Hash: e751aeccb6393db42cc4242f7fd76c75 --Sig_/7UouIvpqwhlaMbND5tpJzRa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:57:18 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > Here's how I understand it: >=20 > 1) env-update rebuilds /etc/environment from /etc/env.d/. > 2) /etc/environment is sourced from /etc/profile, so > 3) you get the updated /etc/environment when you source /etc/profile. Almost, but it's /etc/profile.env that is created by env-update and sourced by /etc/profile. /etc/environment contains variable settings for pam. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs." --Sig_/7UouIvpqwhlaMbND5tpJzRa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk76LPQACgkQum4al0N1GQP+HACfUTsU8kd+hM9Vey09WNIIa0Fx HAgAnie2E5iLZ1eLFaXr+nAKPGaFCShU =bZks -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/7UouIvpqwhlaMbND5tpJzRa--