Unable to set path in /etc/profile

Irene Zimmermann irenezd at patriot.net
Sat Jul 23 18:40:44 UTC 2005


Current version (5.04)

Unable to modify global path in /etc/profile.

Appended the following as a root user:

JDK_HOME=/usr/java/jdk
JRE_HOME=${JDK_HOME}/jre
JAVA_HOME=${JRE_HOME}
export JDK_HOME JRE_HOME JAVA_HOME
PATH=${JDK_HOME}/bin:${JRE_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
export PATH


echo $PATH returns the original path after reboot.

Help please.

Irene





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