environment variables

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Thufir wrote:
> Just curious about the best way to manage env var's.  I edited /etc/
> profile which works fine, but what happens when a new version of java 
> gets installed?
> 
> 
A better way is to add files to /etc/profile.d - you can use the
ones there as examples. The ones with ending in .csh are used if you
are using a c type shell, (csh, tcsh, etc) and the ones ending in
.sh are for sh type shells. (sh, bash, zsh, etc)

Mikkel
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