Re: setting Env variable, and in Debian
Colin,
Thanks,
I declare the required variables in .bashrc, and since
I am using KDE, source it to .kderc. Seems working
both in text and X envirnment now.
Thanks.
Damar
--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:39:19AM -0700, damar
> thapa wrote:
> > I still have not figured out why env variables
> defined in /etc/profile
> > do not show up.
>
> Have you read the INVOCATION section in 'man bash'?
> /etc/profile is only
> read by login shells.
>
> I set environment variables in ~/.bashrc and make
> sure ~/.bash_profile
> sources ~/.bashrc. Much simpler. (Although some
> people prefer to keep
> those two files separate and have them both source
> some other file.
> Whatever.)
>
> > On top /etc/profile problem, I need to add one
> more (related) strange
> > thing on that. I hope some one on the list can
> point me the problem.
> > When I run "export
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1" on bash shell, it
> > works (correct directory comes up on echo
> $JAVA_HOME, if I run this
> > immediately). But, after some some the variable
> vanishes on its own
> > (some program that needs JAVA_HOME, starts to
> complain such as tomcat,
> > and echo $JAVA_HOME, shows nothing too).
>
> I guess you started another shell in the meantime
> that wasn't a child
> process of the one in which you exported the
> environment variable. The
> shell doesn't forget about variables unless you
> unset it yourself or
> source something that unsets it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson
> [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
>
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