On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:25:45AM +0530, Lis Maria wrote: > Hi > > I am facing an issue in setting environment variables through RPM. > > In my spec file, at the %post section,i have > > export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12 > > If i try printing,this here itself i will be shown as set.But if i try to > print the value of JAVA_HOME,after installing the RPM,it is empty. A process can't change other processes's environment, only its own, that gets replicated to new children. > I dont know if this is the right way for setting environment variables > through RPM,please advice Add /etc/profile.d/java.sh and /etc/profile.d/java.csh to the rpm package. The first file sets the environment for bourne like shells, the second for C shells. Examples for both: /etc/profile.d/java.sh: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH /etc/profile.d/java.csh: setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12 set path = ( $JAVA_HOME/bin $path ) Afterwards, new shells with get the new JAVA_HOME -- lfr 0/0
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