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Michael S wrote:

>Hi all.
>In order to set an environment variable at boot time,
>something like http_proxy, where would I do that?
>  
>
Environment variables are not set at boot time. They are set when you o 
into your shell. For doing that, set yhe environment variable in .login.

Regards
S.