Hi!

I want to khow how to permanently set environment variables in RH9.

I logged in as root and i have to set JAVA_HOME variable to its directory /usr/local/jdk1.5.0.

I used at bash prompt the command:

export JAVA_HOME= "/usr/local/jdk1.5.0"

after that i executed
echo $JAVA_HOME

then i can see the path /usr/local/jdk1.5.0

but when i close the bash and restart it, the variable is gone................

Now, if i run echo $JAVA_HOME, i get nothig.

So,
please tell me hoe to set the variables so that they are always there.

Thanks.

If you use the export command in a term it is only valid while open.

Add the path to your users .bash_profile file

In your /etc/profile.d directory there should be two files called jre*.sh and jre*.csh.
These are executed at start up and will set the environment for your jre.
If they don't exist, they are plain text and look like this
(NOTE: one has curly brackets and endif)

jre-latest.csh:
if ( ! $?JAVA_HOME ) then
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk 1.5.0/jre
setenv PATH "${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin"
endif


jre-latest.sh:
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk 1.5.0/jre
export PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin"
fi


Make sure the path is correct. The files you are looking for are binaries called java and java_vm and should be in /usr/local/jdk 1.5.0/jre/bin

Thanks!

I got it done.