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