AIX reading /etc/environment out of step.

[Sandor W. Sklar]

At 3:15 PM +0100 2/6/02, H.G.Borrmann wrote:
>
>The init process reads /etc/environment when it starts and puts all 
>variables in
>its environment which is inherited by all
>processes. So there is no need to read /etc/environment again. Thats 
>what I know.
>

If that is true, then you are saying that a system reboot is required 
whenever changes are made to that file?  I don't think so.

-s-
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