Where to set environment variables

[Doug M-C]

Shouldn't you export PATH before the 'if' statement in
/etc/profile. And then make sure that any PATH statements in
.bashrc and .bash_profile anywhere else, including in /etc, begin
with '$PATH:'?

That way you are setting the default or system wide variable in
the proper place '/etc/profile', and any additional PATH
information then gets added to the default!

Doug


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:41:20 +0100
"Richard M. Barry" <R.Barry at sstl.co.uk> wrote:

> 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). 
>  
> I hope that made sense.

> 
> > 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.
 
> 
> /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:/s
> bin:/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


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