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