thank you all for your tips. I had success in two ways.
first way: changed path and added setenv in default-class in /etc/login. did not work first , had to change .profile of my user, because setting of PATH in .profile eliminated setting in login.conf. also /etc/skel/.profile had to be changed for future users. second (and finally preferred) way: - created /etc/profile: # sh/ksh initialization export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-1.5.0 PATH=/usr/local/jdk-1.5.0/bin:$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6 /bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:. export PATH HOME TERM - changed .profile of my user to not override /etc/profile-PATH: # $OpenBSD: dot.profile,v 1.4 2005/02/16 06:56:57 matthieu Exp $ # # sh/ksh initialization PATH=$PATH export PATH HOME TERM - changed /etc/skel/.profile for further users # $OpenBSD: dot.profile,v 1.4 2005/02/16 06:56:57 matthieu Exp $ # # sh/ksh initialization PATH=$PATH export PATH HOME TERM thank you all again! Test: $ cd /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0/demo/jfc/Stylepad/ $ java -jar Stylepad.jar Welcome in Alice's Wonderland! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/howto-set-global-environment-variable-%28e.g.-PATH%2C-JAVA_HOME%29-tf4236252.html#a12109189 Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
