On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:24 -0500, Kam Leo wrote: > On 2/17/06, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm using Jpackage on FC4 and would like to use cocoon. For reasons > > explained on the Jpackage list, Jpackage doesn't set JAVA_HOME (I > > don't understand the rationale, but that's a different topic). > > > > Presumably, the best place to set JAVA_HOME is in /etc/profile? I > > have about ten different JVM's, apparently. Line's 6 and 54 of > > /etc/profile are the same, and are supposed to set the environment > > variable. It's kinda working, in that something's being echoed, so > > the variable's being set, but Cocoon is still having a problem. I > want > > all users to have the same JAVA_HOME setting, so don't want to do > this > > in the local users .bashrc, if possible. > > > > terminal output: > >-- ----snip for brevity--- > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > Thufir > > > > Lines 44-48 of /etc/profile execute scripts found in /etc/profile.d/. > Put a shell script in /etc/profile.d/ to set your environment variable > or path to whatever you want. for example: [tony@crudpuppy]$cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh export JDK_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01 export PATH=$PATH:$JDK_HOME/bin export JRE_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01 export PATH=$PATH:$JRE_HOME/bin modify as needed for your environment make sure to chmod it 755 -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64