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I know they get read from /etc/env.d/ but I tried adding in my own file in there (00example) with a single env variable but they aren't picked up after either env-update.

How does a user declare them globablly and why did my method not work?

linux 3.0.6

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See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=5 : you need to run env-update so that your file gets merged into /etc/profile.env.

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I ran env-update nothing happened. – rutherford Dec 21 '11 at 14:20
what about env-update && source /etc/profile ? Check that your variable is stored in /etc/profile.env... – chickenkiller Dec 21 '11 at 14:21
that worked cheers - what's the reason? – rutherford Dec 21 '11 at 14:43
maybe your /etc/profile is not sourced at boot... did you log in as root? Maybe /etc/profile is handled differently for root user... Not sure... – chickenkiller Dec 21 '11 at 14:45
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The file /etc/profile is only read when a login shell is starting up. Changes to it will not take effect automatically; you need to log in again, or do source /etc/profile manually. – Kevin Panko Dec 21 '11 at 15:35
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If you created the file /etc/env.d/00example, it would only get set when you attempt to run the command example. Are you sure you aren't looking for setting variables in /etc/env.d/99local (or /etc/profile)?

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the file name has nothing to do with commands typed later. /etc/env.d is only used to organise global environment variables in several files for clarity. – chickenkiller Dec 21 '11 at 14:19
maybe - what's 99local? It's not in my system at the moment – rutherford Dec 21 '11 at 14:24
It's what the docs say to stick system wide user variables, but chickenkiller is right, the names doesn't matter, just the order that they get created/appended. Out of curiosity, what variable did you attempt to set? – Jon Lin Dec 21 '11 at 14:35
also, make sure the files starts with 2 real digits (0 and not O for example), the python code that parses your file is touchy about it... see github.com/funtoo/portage-funtoo/blob/stable/pym/portage/util/… – chickenkiller Dec 21 '11 at 14:40

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