Re: [arch-general] Set ip lan address /etc/environment

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 01:07:59PM +0200, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote:

Hi, I put this text in /etc/environment:

$ source /etc/environment

ip="$(ifconfig | grep -A 1 'eth0' | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"

$ echo $ip

192.168.0.33

Works fine, but when I reboot my archlinux:

$ echo $ip

$(ifconfig | grep -A 1 'eth0' | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1)

What's happened?? Is necessary exec source /etc/environment after every reboot?

Thanks in advanced.

/etc/environment is for PAM not shell, so it only allows ip=xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa . Also, /etc/profile is for LOGIN shells, meaning that from scripts or when doing scp(1) it won't be read. What exactly are you trying to achieve? Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev