Hi all, I should have posted this a long time ago as suggested by Andy. Basically I would like some advice from the systemd gurus on how to provide a common place to set JAVA_HOME in systemd service files. As you know all Java apps need JAVA_HOME to be set. But as systemd service files do not inherit the shell's environment, all Java service files will need to declare a "Environment=JAVA_HOME=/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk". Needless to say that this is hardcoding the path and if one wants to change it for another JVM, he/she will have to fix all service files. Hence I was thinking about a common EnvironmentFile to hold this value once and for all. I know these EnvironmentFile _should_ be avoided but I think we are in a case where it could be tolerated. All Java service file could then just refer to it throught "EnvironmentFile=/the/path/to/this/file". Also it could be parsed by /etc/profile.d/jre.sh to set the shell's environment. So is there a simpler to do that in systemd? Or does this sound ok to you? Also if it sounds OK, is there a standard place to put systemd environment files like such? Thanks -- Guillaume