Where to set environment variables

[Bastian Doetsch]

Am Mittwoch, den 20.10.2004, 15:41 +0100 schrieb Richard M. Barry:

> I'm guessing that:
> The code in the if-statement (in your /etc/ executes
> the  /etc/bash.bashrc script, and $PATH gets set in there (ie reset
> from what you just set it).  Try moving the "PATH=" statement to after
> the if (just before the export PATH statement), and add ":$PATH" to
> the end of it (or else you'll again reset $PATH after /etc/bash.bashrc
> executed). 


Unfortunately that doesn't work either. Here my altered /etc/profile:


bdoetsch at basti:~ $ more /etc/profile
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

#JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0"

#PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:$JAVA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME/bin"

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  if [ "$BASH" ]; then
    PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
    if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bash.bashrc
    fi
  else
    if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
      PS1='# '
    else
      PS1='$ '
    fi
  fi
fi

JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:$PATH:$JAVA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME/bin"


export JAVA_HOME
export PATH

umask 022


Cheers,
Bastian


>  
> I hope that made sense.
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>         [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of
>         Bastian Doetsch
>         Sent: 20 October 2004 14:59
>         To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>         Subject: Re: Where to set environment variables
>         
>         
>         Am Mittwoch, den 20.10.2004, 13:49 +0100 schrieb 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=$PATH:/usr/local/java/bin
>         > > 
>         > > I need to be able to set environment variables for both shell users and 
>         > > server processes. Again, I tried /etc/profile for server environment 
>         > > variables but that didn't work either.
>         > 
>         > /etc/profile typically sets PATH system-wide (to be overriden in
>         > ~/.bash_profile), so please use that. You should already have the
>         > variable set there (and exported at the end of file) so just add to it
>         > your java path. 
>         > 
>         
>         
>         Got the same problem here. Following, you can see
>         my /etc/profile:
>         
>         
>         root at basti:/home/bdoetsch #   more /etc/profile
>         # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
>         # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
>         
>         JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0"
>         
>         PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:$JAVA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME/bin"
>         
>         if [ "$PS1" ]; then
>           if [ "$BASH" ]; then
>             PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
>             if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then
>                 . /etc/bash.bashrc
>             fi
>           else
>             if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
>               PS1='# '
>             else
>               PS1='$ '
>             fi
>           fi
>         fi
>         
>         export JAVA_HOME
>         export PATH
>         
>         umask 022
>         
>         
>         
>         and here's the result when I type echo $PATH:
>         
>         
>         bdoetsch at basti:~ $ echo $PATH
>         /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
>         
>         
>         So where's the error?
>         Thanks,
>         Bastian
>         
>         
>         
>         > Jan
>         > 
>         > 
>         
>         -- 
>         
>         "The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
>         - William Blake, The marriage of heaven and hell

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