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chickeninabiscuit
Asked: 2010-09-08 18:51:38 +0800 CST

How do you set an environment variable for all users on Fedora?

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I'm trying to set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable for my nagios daemon user (it's a nologin user).

I've tried adding a script to export the variable in /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh (the execute bits are also set on this file).

This script sets the environment variable for my own user, but not for the nagios daemon.

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    Daemons started via initscripts don't read profile.d/. You'll need to make the initscript source a file from /etc/sysconfig/ that contains the desired value (and then make the profile.d/ script read it from this as well).

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