JAVA_HOME

[Markus Schönhaber]

17.08.2012 17:14, Colin Law:

> On 17 August 2012 10:14, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's the deal, haven't I set JAVA_HOME correctly?
>>
>> thufir at dur:~$
>> thufir at dur:~$ sudo Desktop/james-2.3.2/bin/run.sh
>> ERROR: JAVA_HOME not found in your environment.
>>
>> Please, set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
>> location of the Java Virtual Machine you want to use.
>> thufir at dur:~$
>> thufir at dur:~$ echo $JAVA_HOME
> 
> Try sudo echo $JAVA_HOME

Why?
That will show the same as
echo $JAVA_HOME
since bash will apply variable expansion before it calls sudo.

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Regards
  mks