AIX reading /etc/environment out of step.

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:34:22AM -0800, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> > > > /etc/default/login is not only a list of environment variables.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd drop the only from that statement to make it 100% correct.
> >
> > That would be wrong. Though the contents of /etc/default/login looks
> > like environment variable settings, the semantics of the variables
> > listed in there are not so simple.
> 
> Isn't that what I just said and further clarified in the rest of my message ?
> 
> dropping the only makes the sentance:
> 
> /etc/default/login is not a list of environment variables.

Oy! I mis-parsed.

My apologies.

> --
> Darren J Moffat
> 
> 


Nico
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