[systemd-devel] Set environment variable system-wide

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 06.08.12 23:09, Kay Sievers (kay at vrfy.org) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought I read somewhere that systemd offers a mechanism to set an
> > environment variable system-wide - i.e. the variable assignment will
> > be present in all the processes started by systemd.
> >
> > But I can't find where I read this, or how to use it.
> >
> > Does this functionality exist or am I getting confused with something else?
> 
> systemctl set-environment ... ?

There's also systemd.setenv= on the kernel cmdline.

But as Kay said, don't use it for anything but debugging things. Most
likely you are doing something wrong if you think this is what you want.

Lennart

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