Right i am at my wits end with this one...

I want the path to java to be added to the path on user login... now this works fine in .bash_profile for root, but it doesnt work for my users.... i get

export: export: No such file or directory

The text in the file is this

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/

i tried addint to rclocal, but its still not working... andyone any ideas?

I wouldn't do it this way for a start. Adding these things to path is a bad idea.

The best way to do this is adding a symlink to /usr/bin

su to root and then type

cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/java java

This should work fine, and keeps path clean of weird stuff.

If you want to add it to the PATH environment variable,
take a look at these threads.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=82056
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=80417

Add

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/

into /etc/profile

If u want it to be global gilty also for ur users ..
If u onlu add it to root/.bash_profile, the users can not source/read it during the login time, but add it to the users/.bah_profile should work .. In this cas u better put that added bash_profile in /etc/skel, so that each time u created an user, that added .bash_profile will be copied into user home dir.

Easiest would be put it in /etc/profile, I recommend also add lines like

export JAVA_HOME=PATH_TO_THE_JAVA_INSTALLATION to the profiles, otherwise some classpaths n many JavaLibraries, runtime couldn't be found if u compiles java-codes as if u put link to javaInstallation/bin/java into /usr/local/bin ..

That links point only to a single java-binary, not to javac, jar n many other tools .. To create so mnay link is absolutely not a clean solution than to add $JAVA_HOME/bin to $PATH ..

cheers guy... i knew there was somewhere to add it... thanks....

Great advices linuxJaver! THX!!!