Unable to set path in /etc/profile

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 07:54:14PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
>On Saturday 23 July 2005 19:40, Irene Zimmermann wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I think you need to set the path in /etc/security/pam_env.conf

Would it not be better to place that sort of thing in /etc/environment ?

It just sounds wrong to mix in Java environment variables in something
named pam_env.conf.

/M

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