Environment Vars?

[Ali Helmy]

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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