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Re: /etc/environment misuse (was: Translation of init scripts)



In article <[🔎] 19990713093632.A11619@dungeon.inka.de>,
Andreas Jellinghaus  <aj@dungeon.inka.de> wrote:

> /etc/environment was first used by ssh, so this defines the file.

We had /etc/environment on AIX long before there was ssh (or Linux, for
that matter). However, it used to have to contain simple <name>=<value>
lines (and comments), which seems consistent with the ssh usage.

Anselm
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Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
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