How to define system wide environmental variables

Erik0067 · 04-28-2014, 04:42 AM

Hi,

Our company uses a program called OBIEE that uses several configuration files.
Environmental variables such as PATH can be used in the configuration files.

Now I want to define an environmental variable LOGOFFURL - this is a new variable and (thus) isn't available to the program OBIEE.
The question is: how and where to define it? Please bear in mind it should not be available to a single user, it is should be an user independent system wide variable.
BTW, our os is Red Hat 5.6.

TIA!

kirukan · 04-28-2014, 04:53 AM

If you add it in /etc/profile, it will apply to all users in the system
say like,
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_31

export JAVA_HOME

Erik0067 · 04-28-2014, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kirukan

If you add it in /etc/profile, it will apply to all users in the system
say like,
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_31

export JAVA_HOME

Thank you, we'll give this a try.

Erik0067 · 04-28-2014, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erik0067

Thank you, we'll give this a try.

I've added the two environmental variables to the file /etc/profile, but unfortunately it doesn't work.
A colleague of mine suggested this is because it's only available to users logged on. Since we are dealing here with an application, it should also be available to applicationa that don't log on.
So anymore suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

kirukan · 04-28-2014, 10:13 AM

An application run by a normal user or super user which is root. if so this /etc/profile will apply to all.