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global env vars for root
I ran into a situation where I needed to execute something as root, but the executable file needed access to environment variables that I had defined in my .bashrc file.
To fix this, I added those same environment variable definitions from the .bashrc file to my /etc/environment file. Note that you need to remove the 'export' statement at the beginning of each variable you define in /etc/environment.
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