[systemd-devel] Set environment variable system-wide

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Mon Aug 6 14:17:19 PDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> systemctl set-environment ... ?

Maybe thats what I read about.

In this case I'm looking to set it in early boot though, so that it
affects all spawned processes from the very start. Is there a nice way
of doing this?

> But it's in almost all use cases wrong to use anything like that isn't
> broken unix legacy that expects it that way.

I'm having trouble parsing that sentence. In this case I'm looking for
a clean way to set PYTHONOPTIMIZE system wide (to enable Python's
optimized bytecode usage).

Daniel


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