Environment Vars?

[Ali Helmy]

On 28/03/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> . /etc/profile.d/java.sh
>
> ^ note space
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 22:08 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > So i su-ed to root and created /etc/profile.d/java.sh
> > I copied+pasted the items you sent me into /etc/profile.d/java.sh
> > then i ./java.sh
> > but when i echo $JAVA_HOME
> > i get a blank line for the output!
> >
> > so what am i doing wrong?
> >
> > On 28/03/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> >         On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >         > On Monday 27 March 2006 13:46, Craig White wrote:
> >         > >On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 20:08 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> >         > >> Hey mates,
> >         > >>
> >         > >> In an installation of one program (Apache Tomcat) it
> >         instructed me
> >         > >> to: Set an environment variable named JAVA_HOME to the
> >         pathname of
> >         > >> the directory into which you installed the JRE...
> >         > >>
> >         > >> So how does one set an environment variable? Assuming I
> >         got java
> >         > >> installed at /usr/java/
> >         > >
> >         > >----
> >         > >this ***may*** be useful to you
> >         > >
> >         > ># cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh
> >         > >JREHOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/lib/i386"
> >         > >JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06"
> >         > >JAVAWSHOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/javaws"
> >         > >LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JREHOME:$JAVAWSHOME"
> >         > >PATH="$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin"
> >         > >export JAVA_HOME
> >         > >
> >         > >Adjust as needed
> >         > >
> >         > >Craig
> >         >
> >         > Thanks Craig, although I expect this will enlarge the
> >         already lengthy
> >         > list of stuff that needs massaging when a new java jre is
> >         installed.
> >         ----
> >         it all depends upon what your needs are. I'm giving the larger
> >         picture
> >         view here but I can appreciate that some are incapable of
> >         seeing the
> >         larger picture.
> >
> >         you only need to implement that which you need - much as I've
> >         done there
> >         by only exporting the JAVA_HOME and not the other
> >         environmental
> >         variables.
> >
> >         Thus, the path is likely to be important and in his case, he
> >         needed the
> >         environmental variable JAVA_HOME so it is exported
> >
> >         Craig
> >
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Emm, what?

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A. Helmy
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