Re: Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/13/2010 11:15 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2010 10:49:35 Jason Filippou wrote: What am I doing wrong? Do I need to "export" something? You did log out and log back in, right? Your ".profile" is only read on login. Why not just re-source the file? $ . .profile

Re: Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 14:48 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2010 13:16:21 Jason Filippou wrote: > > > You did log out and log back in, right? Your ".profile" is only read > > > on login. > > > > I actually hadn't done that, and logging in again helped with the PATH > > v

Re: Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:49:35PM +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to set my PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables so that > they point to my JDK's bin and some Java source files respectively and this > is what I've written in my .profile file: > > # PATH should also in

Re: Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 May 2010 13:16:21 Jason Filippou wrote: > > You did log out and log back in, right? Your ".profile" is only read > > on login. > > I actually hadn't done that, and logging in again helped with the PATH > variable, but I still get nothing when echoing the value of CLASSPATH. I've >

Re: Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 May 2010 10:49:35 Jason Filippou wrote: > What am I doing wrong? Do I need to "export" something? You did log out and log back in, right? Your ".profile" is only read on login. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o

Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Filippou
Hi, I've been trying to set my PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables so that they point to my JDK's bin and some Java source files respectively and this is what I've written in my .profile file: # PATH should also include the latest jdk "bin" directory PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/bi