environment variables

nasht · 08-11-2005, 01:36 PM

Hi,

When installing Java, Tomcat and others, they asked me to created variable like

JAVA_HOME
CATALINA_HOME
...
I created those by doing export NAME="value".
It worked fine, until I had to reboot my computer.

Where do I set those variables so that they're always available to the system?

Thank You,

laceupboots · 08-11-2005, 02:02 PM

Try looking for a file called /etc/profile.

Vookimedlo · 08-11-2005, 02:03 PM

Hi,
put them into /etc/profile file for system wide use.

jayemef · 08-11-2005, 02:12 PM

Alternatively, you can create your own script(s) in /etc/profile.d. For example:

Code:

(/etc/profile.d/java.sh)
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_02"
export JAVA_PATH="$JAVA_HOME"
export PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin"
export JDK_HOME="$JAVA_HOME"