Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:37 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: yong lee wrote: [...] I have to manually do source /etc/profile to see the new changes after I open a new terminal window everytime. Even a reboot does not help. Does anyone have any idea ? You say that even a

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread yong lee
Liam, I think you have a good point. So how do I change its default if I want the file to be sourced when I login using GDM. Thanks Yong --- Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:37 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: yong lee wrote: [...] I

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
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Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Liam, I think you have a good point. So how do I change its default if I want the file to be sourced when I login using GDM. Thanks Yong --- Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:37 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: yong lee wrote: [...]

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:51:15 -0700 (PDT) yong lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam, I think you have a good point. So how do I change its default if I want the file to be sourced when I login using GDM. Thanks Yong --- Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007

setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-20 Thread yong lee
I add new entry in /etc/profile.(see below) #add java variable JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jre1.6.0_01 export JAVA_HOME #add JAVA_HOME to the PATH PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH} export PATH I thought these new entries would be effective after I reopen a new terminal window. But it did not. I have to

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-20 Thread Orestes leal
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:06:57 -0700 (PDT) yong lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought these new entries would be effective after I reopen a new terminal window. But it did not. I have to manually do source /etc/profile to see the new Make the same change in ~/.bashrc, it depends on the WM that

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
yong lee wrote: I add new entry in /etc/profile.(see below) #add java variable JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jre1.6.0_01 export JAVA_HOME #add JAVA_HOME to the PATH PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH} export PATH That is a very un-Debian way of doing things because it requires that a user log out and

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-20 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:55:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: snip In any case some standard ways of dealing with this are: * Install in your $HOME directory instead of /usr/local and then add these paths to your $HOME/.bashrc file. This is typical for a personal installation. *