diff -Nru gammu/common/gsmstate.c gammu.new/common/gsmstate.c
--- gammu/common/gsmstate.c	Sat Nov 30 20:15:12 2002
+++ gammu.new/common/gsmstate.c	Sat Mar 29 12:29:07 2003
@@ -705,6 +705,7 @@
 	CFG_Header	*cfg_info;
         char		*homedir;
         char		rcfile[201];
+	char		*etc_dir;
 
 #if defined(WIN32) || defined(DJGPP)
         homedir = getenv("HOMEDRIVE");
@@ -713,9 +714,15 @@
         strncat(rcfile, homedir ? homedir : "", 200);
         strncat(rcfile, "\\gammurc", 200);
 #else
-        homedir = getenv("HOME");
-        if (homedir) strncpy(rcfile, homedir, 200);
-        strncat(rcfile, "/.gammurc", 200);
+        etc_dir = getenv("ETC_DIR");
+        if (etc_dir) {
+                strncpy(rcfile, etc_dir, 200);
+                strncat(rcfile, "/gammurc", 200);
+        } else {
+                homedir = getenv("HOME");
+                if (homedir) strncpy(rcfile, homedir, 200);
+                strncat(rcfile, "/.gammurc", 200);
+        }
 #endif
 
         if ((cfg_info = CFG_ReadFile(rcfile, false)) == NULL) {