Re: Where to put environment variables?

[praveen kallakuri <praveen@unlserve.unl.edu>]

your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile 
is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login 
shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your 
environment variables in .bashrc in your HOME. and source .bashrc in 
your .bash_profile.


Joao Pedro Clemente wrote:
> I would like to add a JAVA_HOME variable as some of my apps seem to like
> it...
>
> I was doing this by exporting it in /etc/profile and it was ok.
>
> I was using my system loging in at console and then doing "startx". Today
> I decided to startup kdm (/etc/init.d/kdm start) and when I logged from
> there I notisted that the konsoles I opened didn't had the environment
> variables I specified.
> So I think kdm does not reads /etc/profile and then every think that is
> started by kdm also does not get those settings.
>
> What is the correct way to add environment variables then?
>
> Thank you
> Joao Clemente