.bashrc personal environment variable

hua · 04-11-2008, 02:41 AM

I need to use on a local user (Centos5) personal environment variables for(JAVA). The application I use has its own JAVA.
I tried to extend the user profile by editing the ~/.bashrc with:

export JAVA_HOME=/application/JAVA/jdk1.6.0_ibm
export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"
export APP_HOME=/application/distibution

#End ~/.bashrc
~

Is it possible to find out if those variables are loaded? properly??
Make those lines sense anyway??

stanciu · 04-11-2008, 03:12 AM

try 'echo $JAVA_HOME' to see if the variable was exported
then try 'which java' to see if the path is the one defined in .bashrc

if it does not work try replacing in your .bashrc file the second line with PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin.....although your way should work too.