On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:18 -0700, Ken Godee wrote:

CentOS 3.x

Don't know how this got by me, but for years I've been previously using /etc/profile to set system wide environment variables and now I just noticed it doesn't work any more (sort of).

If you log in via console it works, log in via gdm, it does not, but use to work.

Now I noticed if I create script files for the vars I want exported and include them in /etc/profile.d/ the vars get set either way.

Is this now the correct way to set system environment variables by using script files in the /etc/profile.d/ ?????

Sorry, I couldn't find info on this, most info says to use /etc/profile

/etc/profile.d/ is the new way :) ... but either way should work.

/etc/profile.d is called by /etc/profile, so either way, they get loaded via /etc/profile.

(Unless your specific window manager looks somewhere else)