[ale] Mandrake PATH headache

[Charles Shapiro]

Umm. If you just run a command it has its own environment. If you set
${PATH} there it's set in that environment, not the parent.  Don't you
actually want to run ". ~/profile"?  That runs the commands in the current
environment as if you'd typed them in.

If you're using bash(1), it runs "~/.bash_profile" as if at the dot
automagically on login. Most consoles have some kind of switch or argument
line where you can tell the shell to start as if you've logged in rather
than as a sub-shell of your current shell. In that case it will source in
~/.bash_profile every time. Or you can set the "env" variable to point to a
file which will get sourced in on every sub-invocation.

Also usually I've usually organized java stuff in the
${JAVA_HOME}/javaconfig.sh script, which I source in (".
${JAVA_HOME}/javaconfig.sh") as needed. That way I can run different jvm s
for different programs by resetting JAVA_HOME -- handy in the 'maze of
twisty little passages' java versioning world. And I can manipulate
${CLASSPATH} and other java hideousities globally without having to wrangle
every start script when something new happens.

-- CHS

On 8/16/06, PairOfTwins <PairOfTwins at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone:
>
> After installing Mandrake/PCLinuxOS, I'm unable to change the PATH.  At
> least what PATH applies at the konsole.
>
> Tried:
>
> /etc/profile
> ~/.profile
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
> and NONE of them adds the jre path that I need!
>
> HOWEVER if I run "source profile" I get the desired PATH update.
>
> Does KDE set that PATH (searching Help didn't Help).
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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