Subject: Re: Java...again
From: i_robot (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 20:56:46 AKST
Good point George, however, I was logged in as g0t_slack, not root. There is
no .bashrc there either...I'm about to try Justin's idea.
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fielder George Dowding" <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Java...again
>
> Adam, methinks thou art logged in as root! Alas! Get thee to thy own
> self quickly!
>
> <21stC> My root home subdirectory, /root, has ".profile" instead of
> ".bash_profile" (for reasons only dimly understood in the early days
> of "sh"). My users' home subdirectories, /home/fgd/, /home/iceworm/,
> etc., have ".bash_profile" and ".bashrc". On my Debian system, these
> are copied from the files located in /etc/skel/ when adding a new
> user.
>
> Immediately after getting control after installing a Debian system,
> I login as root, dive down to /etc/skel/ and put my favorite little
> stanzas in ".bash_profile" and ".bashrc". There after, the "adduser"
> script will copy these modified files whenever I add a new user.
>
> I find the ".profile" and ".bashrc" files for root are a little
> different (path, umask) so I go there and add my favorite little
> stanzas as appropriate.
>
> Cheerio! fgd
>
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 16:06:38 -0900
> "i_robot" <i-robot@gci.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Great, I also meant to ask, has anyone else ha problems with java
> > 1.4.1? I have to go with 1.3 to get anything working. Also, is
> > that .bash_profile supposed to be in my /home dir? Cause it's not.
> > I found some .bash stuff in/etc...vi it there>?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Justin Dieters" <enderak@gci.net>
> > To: "Adam Elkins" <i-robot@gci.net>
> > Cc: <aklug@aklug.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 4:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: Java...again
> >
> >
> > > .bash_profile is what you want (assuming you are using bash, of
> > > course)
> > >
> > > Here's the appropriate lines from my .bash_profile file:
> > > # Setup java path
> > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin
> > > export PATH
> > >
> > > Then you need to logout and login again. I know there's a way
> > > to reload everything again without logging out, but I can't
> > > think of it at the moment..
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Justin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Adam Elkins wrote:
> > > > Once again (I really should write this stuff down) I'm
> > > > installing Java. T=
> > > > his=20
> > > > time on Slack 8.1. I an never remember how to do this, I know
> > > > I can do=20
> > > > something with PATH, the .bashrc file (I don;t have this) or I
> > > > can link i=
> > > > t.=20
> > > > Justin told me how to do this once....Help needed.
> > > > --=20
> > > > g0t_slack?
> > > >
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