Where to set environment variables

[Jan Kokoska]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:30 +0100, Darren Wheatley wrote:
> 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.

/etc/profile typically sets PATH system-wide (to be overriden in
~/.bash_profile), so please use that. You should already have the
variable set there (and exported at the end of file) so just add to it
your java path. 

Jan