[plug] Setting environment variables in Debian

[Denis Brown]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 caston at arach.net.au wrote:

> I've tried setting environment variables in /etc/profile without success as follows
> ORACLE_BASE="/ora"
> export ORACLE_BASE
>
> Can you help?

If I recall correctly, there are two files that are used for global
settings.  For a text login (local terminal) /etc/profile is the one.
For use under X, /etc/bash.bashrc is the one.

Until a more authoritative response comes along, try that.
Cheers,
Denis


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