On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 14:57 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > If you want to use what you already have, you will need to add an > entry to your path. You can do this on a per-user basis by editing the > .bashrc or .bash_profile files with an entry like > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre-xxx/bin > export PATH > Assuming your /usr/java contains a directory named jre-1.5.0_01 To find the Sun java executable first, you need to put the jre bin directory on the beginning of the path: PATH=/usr/java/jre-1.5.0_01/bin:$PATH export PATH After updating your .bashrc or .bash_profile be sure to log out and back in again to pick up the changes... Rich -- Rich Huff <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>