>> In my case, I am doing the change because of Samba. When you run >> tesparm, the lastest versions of Samba give the following warning: >> > In any case, if surviving the boot process is desired, the changes > should specifically be tested at boot, not just from a root login > shell. This issue trips up even seasoned administrators (*ahem*). > > --keith Agreed, I put mine in the rc startup script for ldap. I would suggest only putting into what ever process needing it vs a system wide var.