Where to set environment variables

[Darren Wheatley]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me definitively where to put environment settings please?

I have installed the j2sdk from Sun, but need to alter my PATH to point 
to it.

I have tried adding the following to ~/.gcprofile, ~/.bash_profile, and 
~/.bashrc but nothing seems to set my path properly:

    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/bin

I need to be able to set environment variables for both shell users and 
server processes. Again, I tried /etc/profile for server environment 
variables but that didn't work either.

This is driving me nuts, so any help you can give would be appreciated.

Cheers

D.