issues on setting up environment

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Ubuntu, I believe the file you want is /etc/environment, not
/etc/profile.

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:39:15 +0800, Steve Torrefranca wrote:

> hello,
> 
> i was setting up our ubuntu test app server and i have j2sdk 1.5
> apt-getted and installed at /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/
> 
> then i did export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/ from the command line
> and jboss ran smoothly.   but after i closed the terminal and opened a
> new one, JAVA_HOME was gone.
> 
> So I added "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/" in /etc/profile and
> did source /etc/profile command.  checked it with echo $JAVA_HOME and it
> was again there.  but when i closed the terminal and open a new one (or
> even just opening a new tab) it was gone!  isnt it supposed to be there
> once you added it to profile or bash_rc?
> 
> so, we call it windwz hang over, i rebooted and tried echo command again
> and it was still missing (with the export line in profile).
> 
> tried at my ubuntu laptop, same behavior. 
> 
> out of curiousity, and i hope no cats died, i tried it  with a debian
> machine but it was okay.
> 
> am i missing or messing something?
> 
> thanks
> 
> steve
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Ong Torrefranca
> http://www.on-tvmall.com.tw
> 
> -
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