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

[Fred Janon]

Thanks Peter for the answer and the link. That helps.

Fred

--- On Sun, 10/3/10, Peter Sutter <sutterp at sopac.com.au> wrote:

From: Peter Sutter <sutterp at sopac.com.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] Where to set an environment variable in CentOS?
To: plug at plug.org.au
Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 10:53 PM

Fred Janon wrote:
> I installed Tomcat6 on a CentOS distrib and I need to set an environment variable as indicated here in a user's post:
> 
> ------------------
> Add the $CATALINA_HOME environment variable to your PATH.
> # vi /etc/profile
> CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19
> export CATALINA_HOME
> ------------------
> 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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When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.

When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/#> exists.

Peter
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