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

[Leonid Isaev]

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