What is the best place to setup system wide environment variables on Linux?
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I just want to setup a system wide environment variable, JAVA_HOME
for all users, including root user.
Requirements:
- accessible to normal users
- accessible to root
- always loaded, not only for bash (gnome-terminal does not start a bash by default)
- to work on Ubuntu, Debian and optionally Red Hat
- great if addition could be easily scripted
So far here is the no-list:
/etc/profile.d/java.sh
- not executed if you start a new console fromgnome-terminal
/etc/profile
- same as above~/.profile
- current user only, also any solution assuming~
would not be acceptable because home directory could be on NIS, andJAVA_HOME
could be different.
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