Re: setting Env variable, and in Debian
Hi,
Thanks all for your responses.
Now, I got the situation that the PATH and ENV
VARIABLE entries in /ete/profile do not show up
neither in text nor X mode. It is either /etc/profile
is not executed, or those entries were overwritten by
other scripts. As far as overwritten is concern, PATH
is fine (it may have been defined in some other
scripts , but other varaiables such as JAVA_HOME,
JAVA_COMPILER are very unlikely candidates!).
As Eric Hanchrow suggested, I may have to study Shell
in terms of how it works. Which manual do I have to
study for this?
I am using KDE, and use startx to start.
Thanks.
Damar
--- Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 01:51, damar thapa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have to set Env variables such as JAVA_HOME, and
> > PATH. Since it has to be for every one, I put it
> in
> > /etc/profile file. But to my surprise, it works
> only
> > if I log into in text mode, not in X window.
> >
> > Are there any other files that should work for any
> > environments, X or text.
> >
>
> interesting, it doesn't seem like there is a
> standard place to set
> environment variables for X. It looks like it might
> depend on the login
> manager/window manager. KDM allows you to set some
> things like PATH and
> LD_LIBRARY_PREFIX within /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc but it
> also seems to set
> some of its own, GS_LIB, for example in
> /usr/bin/kde2
>
> /etc/profile is for "Bourne compatible shells
> (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1),
> ...)." which doesn't include X :)
>
> maybe a little more info about what environment you
> are running under,
> KDE, GNOME, etc, also are the users using startx or
> [X|K|G]DM?
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
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