Installation manual

Manual System Conﬁguration

6. 1. Environment

We ﬁnd it amazing howbroken the default setup is. Depending on howwelogin, we end up with a completely

different environment. The PATHvariable, for example, is unnecessarily set (or modiﬁed) by init, login and al-

most every shell proﬁle. It’snot too complicated to harmonise things a little bit.

/etc/environment:

#/etc/environment: default environment sourced by

#−login sh/bash using ’. /etc/environmnt’

#−login csh/tcsh using ’eval ‘/usr/local/bin/readenv /etc/environment‘’

#−/etc/X11/Xsession.d/10−source−environment using ’. /etc/environment’

#set default locale

export LANG=C

#set path

export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin"

#xprint

export XPSERVERLIST="‘/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist‘"

export XPRINTER=lp0

$HOME/.environment:

#$HOME/.environment: local environment sourced by

#−login sh/bash using ’. $HOME/.environmnt’

#−login csh/tcsh using ’eval /usr/local/bin/readenv $HOME/.environment’

#−$HOME/.Xsession using ’. $HOME/.environment’

#add $HOME/bin to the path

export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"