Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having poked around the system a bit for similar purposes, I find the > following files to be useful in getting environment variables visible > more or less globally: > > /etc/profile > /etc/environment > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf > /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome > > Presumably there are equivalent files available for other login > managers.
For sessions that use pam modules for authentication, there's also: /etc/security/pam_env (and make sure that auth required pam_env.so is in the pam modules you use when logging in (login, gdm ,etc)) It appears that the cron daemon also uses a pam module, so this might actually be a solution to the original question about setting http_proxy etc for cron as well as ordinary login session. Not tried this aspect of it myself though... -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902
