[TriLUG] Global JAVA_HOME variable?

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 08:27, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a good way to set a system wide variable for
> JAVA_HOME?  I understand setting it in each person's .bash_profile but I
> would prefer to set it once for the system if possible so that if/when
> we change to a newer JRE we only have to change the path in one place. 

1- You can set system variables in /etc/profile
2 - I usually create a symlink from /usr/local/java to the proper
JAVA_HOME and set the system JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java - that way, when
I upgrade the JDK, I just change the symlink, and it's done.

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