JAVA_HOME from /etc/profile
Anthony J Placilla
anthony_placilla at SUTH.COM
Fri Feb 17 21:43:28 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:24 -0500, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 2/17/06, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using Jpackage on FC4 and would like to use cocoon. For reasons
> > explained on the Jpackage list, Jpackage doesn't set JAVA_HOME (I
> > don't understand the rationale, but that's a different topic).
> >
> > Presumably, the best place to set JAVA_HOME is in /etc/profile? I
> > have about ten different JVM's, apparently. Line's 6 and 54 of
> > /etc/profile are the same, and are supposed to set the environment
> > variable. It's kinda working, in that something's being echoed, so
> > the variable's being set, but Cocoon is still having a problem. I
> want
> > all users to have the same JAVA_HOME setting, so don't want to do
> this
> > in the local users .bashrc, if possible.
> >
> > terminal output:
> >--
----snip for brevity---
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Thufir
> >
>
> Lines 44-48 of /etc/profile execute scripts found in /etc/profile.d/.
> Put a shell script in /etc/profile.d/ to set your environment variable
> or path to whatever you want.
for example:
[tony at crudpuppy]$cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh
export JDK_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01
export PATH=$PATH:$JDK_HOME/bin
export JRE_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01
export PATH=$PATH:$JRE_HOME/bin
modify as needed for your environment
make sure to chmod it 755
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