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March 22, 2012 15:55
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Setting Global Environment Variables on Ubuntu
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| I ran into a situation where I needed to execute something as root, but the executable file needed access to environment variables that I had defined in my .bashrc file. | |
| To fix this, I added those same environment variable definitions from the .bashrc file to my /etc/environment file. Note that you need to remove the 'export' statement at the beginning of each variable you define in /etc/environment. |
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