A while back on my Ultra-10 test box running Solaris 8 I installed OpenOffice 
2.2. It came with SUN's packaged version of Java 6 and created a /usr/jdk 
directory. In the past I have been using /usr/jdk as symbolic link to point to 
one of the self-extracting versions of Java we have installed (e.g. /usr/jdk -> 
/usr/jdk1.5.0_10). Naturally the Java packages included with OO broke this. 
Fast forward a few months and we needed to get Java 6 on our production 
systems. I decided this would be a good time to break the old /usr/jdk symlink 
so that we could get OO installed later on.

I thought I had taken everything into account but just the other day I realized 
that utsettings no longer works. It turns out that the SRSS 3.1 was using that 
same /usr/jdk symlink. I can just recreate the symlink on the production 
servers but that means I cannot install OO without some additional hoops to 
jump through. More importantly, it means that my test system and our production 
environment are continuing to diverge, which really isn't a good thing.

So, my question is is there an easy way to change which Java JRE is used post 
installation? I know it can be done via utinstall -j but that requires 
reinstalling the software.

Would it be enough to change the /etc/opt/SUNWut/jre symbolic link? If I do not 
fix the problem what else besides utsettings would actually be broken (i.e. how 
serious is it)? To be honest, it doesn't seem to be affecting anything in our 
environment, but I though I would ask to see if anyone else has run into this?

Thanks!

-- Russ


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