how do you edit /etc/profile?

Michael Mallete mrmallete at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 9 02:20:40 UTC 2004


ok! got it! i also did the same for my postgresql
installation and it worked perfectly. thanx! :)

-Myk


>> >$ ls -al /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 192 21. Jul 03:20
>> >/etc/profile.d/java.sh
>> >
>> >$ cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>> >JAVA_VERSION="j2re1.4.2_04"
>> > 
>> >if [ -d /usr/java/${JAVA_VERSION} ]; then
>> >        export
JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/${JAVA_VERSION}"
>> >        export JAVA_PATH="${JAVA_HOME}"
>> >        export PATH="$PATH:${JAVA_HOME}/bin"
>> >fi
>> >
>> >So create that file executable and maybe adjust
the
>> >J2RE version number
>> >if you have a different version installed.
>> >
>> >Alexander
>
>ah. so you mean execute this in bash:
>> 
>> $ ls -al /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>> $ cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>> 
>> then add this to /etc/profile/
>
>You left out the first line of the java.sh file!
>--> JAVA_VERSION="j2re1.4.2_04"
>
>> if [ -d /usr/java/${JAVA_VERSION} ]; then
>>         export
JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/${JAVA_VERSION}"
>>         export JAVA_PATH="${JAVA_HOME}"
>>        export PATH="$PATH:${JAVA_HOME}/bin"
>> fi
>
>> -Myk
>
>No.
>
>vi /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>---> then put in the content I showed you and save
the new file
>chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>--> to make the file executive
>
>Alexander
>
>
>-- 
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