http://www.thelinuxblog.com/making-environment-variables-stick/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/making-environment-variables-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-3328 Michael Cheselka Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:59:02 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/?p=469#comment-3328 Many linuxes have a /etc/profile.d/ directory.
Put and env.sh in there and chmod a+x the file.
Logout and test to see if it’s working.
If you change /etc/profile, then updates won’t take and you’ll have to hand edit each time there’s an update.
Also, “$ . /etc/profile” and “$ source /etc/profile” are the same thing.

]]> http://www.thelinuxblog.com/making-environment-variables-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 Michael Schemer Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:30:47 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/?p=469#comment-3307 You also have a .bashrc and .bash_profile for updating your path variables on a user-basis. Only use /etc/profile for environment variables that EVERY user should have.

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