setting environmental variables permanently

[geethas]

Hi all,

I need to set path for java and some files permanently..

Below is my requirement,

export JAVA_HOME=/root/EC2/jre1.5.0_16/
export EC2_HOME=/root/EC2/ec2-api-tools
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export C2_PRIVATE=/root/EC2/aws-private
export C2_CERT=/root/EC2/aws-cert

Please help me how to do this..

Thanks in advance
Sg..

[daark.child]

You can do this in a users ~/bash_profile or globally in /etc/profile. Some distros have a directory called /etc/profile.d where you create scripts that contain the environmental variables you want to set. This means that you don't have to touch /etc/profile.

[geethas]

thanks daark..

I have to set system wide, I used /etc/profile, but not working..

after that we need to run any services?

regards,
sg..

[daark.child]

Did you log out and back in again or run "source /etc/profile" after setting the variables?