[plug] Where to set an environment variable in CentOS?

[Fred Janon]

I installed Tomcat6 on a CentOS distrib and I need to set an environment variable as indicated here in a user's post:

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Add the $CATALINA_HOME environment variable to your PATH.
# vi /etc/profile
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19
export CATALINA_HOME
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I checked the /etc/profile file and it doesn't seem to be the best place to add it.

What would be the best directory/file to actually set the variable so it is set globally when the system boots?

Thanks

Fred


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