Michael Sullivan kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 2. heinäkuuta 2004 05:34): > Does /etc/profile when the system starts up or does it only > execute when a user logs in? It's read whenever a new bash login shell is started. > I need to set my JAVA_HOME > variable for Tomcat when the system starts up. In my > /etc/rc.d/rc.local file I have: > > JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java.sdk > export JAVA_HOME This has effect only within the rc.local script and in programs started from rc.local. > I "echo $JAVA_HOME" and it give me blank lines, as if > $JAVA_HOME was never set. I am doing this right, aren't I? No. You must understand that Unix/Linux environment variables aren't global (like in that other OS), they are inherited from the parent process. Use the shell startup files to set up the environment. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
