Environment Variables

[victorsk]

Hello,

I was wondering if somebody could tell me how to set up environment variables in Mandrake 10.1 Official. I am planning to install Tomcat and have installed Java for Tomcat to use. So I think I'll need to set up environment variables for Tomcat to work. Does anybody know how to do this? Thank you so much.

Victor.

[prosen]

If you are using BASH shell ( which in most probability you are )
then edit your .bash_profile file in your $HOME directory.
Suppose you want to set environment variable MY_VAR1 as "myusername"

add the following to the file :

MY_VAR1=myusername
export MY_VAR1

mind you, this will set up environment variables only for the current user,
if you want to do this system-wide, then edit the system file /etc/profile as root,
in the same manner as above.

[victorsk]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply. With your help, I am beginning to get the hang of things.

Cheers.