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Charles Plessy

2006-11-26, 7:19 pm

Dear all,

There has been a question which has stayed unanswered for a while on
debian-user-french; as I do not have the answer, I would like to submit
it here...

Users are now told to use /etc/defaults/locale instead of
/etc/environment for setting system-wide default language. But what
about the non-locale environment variables that users also put in
/etc/environment, such as http_proxy for instance? Are they also
unwelcome because /etc/environment "is a PAM configuration file"?

Have a nice day,


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Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan


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Ian Jackson

2006-11-27, 1:18 pm

Charles Plessy writes ("Where to put non-locale global environment settitngs ?"):
> Users are now told to use /etc/defaults/locale instead of
> /etc/environment for setting system-wide default language. But what
> about the non-locale environment variables that users also put in
> /etc/environment, such as http_proxy for instance? Are they also
> unwelcome because /etc/environment "is a PAM configuration file"?


Configuration files are there for users to edit.

Ian.


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