On Monday 27 March 2006 13:46, Craig White wrote: >On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 20:08 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote: >> Hey mates, >> >> In an installation of one program (Apache Tomcat) it instructed me >> to: Set an environment variable named JAVA_HOME to the pathname of >> the directory into which you installed the JRE... >> >> So how does one set an environment variable? Assuming I got java >> installed at /usr/java/ > >---- >this ***may*** be useful to you > ># cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh >JREHOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/lib/i386" >JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06" >JAVAWSHOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/javaws" >LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JREHOME:$JAVAWSHOME" >PATH="$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin" >export JAVA_HOME > >Adjust as needed > >Craig Thanks Craig, although I expect this will enlarge the already lengthy list of stuff that needs massaging when a new java jre is installed. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
