> I found the problem on this one. Apparently gnomes
> hacked into my
> machine and commented the export line in my .bashrc. I was not aware
> that one could "echo $VARS" and still see a value without
> exporting them
> So, when I was typing "echo $JAVA_HOME" and seeing a
> result, I wrongly assumed that my CLASSPATH, JAVA_HOME, etc were set
> when they were not.
I'm sure they were *set*, just not exported.
Here's the difference:
with just setting:
argent:~$ TEST=value
argent:~$ echo $TEST
value
argent:~$ sh
argent:~$ echo $TEST
argent:~$ exit
now with exporting:
argent:~$ export TEST=value
argent:~$ echo $TEST
value
argent:~$ sh
argent:~$ echo $TEST
value
argent:~$ exit
It's a case of what any subshells get to see.
Jon
