> Greetings,
>
> Is there a way on a Linux machine to set some environmental
> variables on machine boot-up that are automatically available
> to all my perl scripts from the environment?
>
> For example say I have a Common_Output_Area which my system administrators
> are frequently changing on me.
>
> I would like to be able to set
> COMMON_OUTPUT_AREA = "/../../../"
>
> Have the machine reboot then all my Perl scripts
> could recognize $ENV{'COMMON_OUTPUT_AREA'}
>
I believe you can hack your variable into
/etc/profile
To have it inherited by /bin/sh which I *believe* is the base
environment for pretty much anything.
HTH,
http://danconia.org
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