Have upstart read environment from /etc/environment for a service

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Published on 2010-04-01T21:22:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 21:23 UTC
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What is the best way to provide the environment variables defined in /etc/environment to an upstart service?

I think simply sourcing them with . in a script section does not work, because the scripts are executed by sh which would need an additional "export" in front of every definition...

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