On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:06, shane c branch wrote: > as i understand it, if one wants to make system wide enviroment > changes, then he should edit /etc/profile on a red hat system. > > i have installed a JRE, but it requires i make this change manually, > and i examined /etc/profile, but it is not clear to me where i should > add the path to the JRE. > > could someone clear this up, please? i checked google, but what it > came up with didn't look like what i see on my machine. no PATH= > statement. Make your own file in /etc/profile.d/ Name it "java.sh" or something similar. Content would be: JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export JAVA_HOME PATH -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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