On Dec 2, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Craig White wrote:
> Installed Fedora DS and trying to run
> # /opt/fedora-ds/startconsole -u admin \
> -a http://lin-workstation.azapple.com:32131
>
> /opt/fedora-ds/startconsole: Your JAVA_HOME environment variable is
> not
> set. Please set it appropriately.
>
> # rpm -qa j2re
> j2re-1.4.2-11.1.fc3.rf
>
> # cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh
> JREHOME="/usr/lib/jre/lib/i386"
> JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jre/bin"
> JAVAWSHOME="/usr/lib/jre/javaws"
> #LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JREHOME:$JAVAWSHOME"
> PATH="$PATH:/usr/lib/jre/bin"
>
> # . /etc/profile.d/java.sh
> [root at lin-workstation craig]# export $JAVA_HOME
> -bash: export: `/usr/lib/jre/bin': not a valid identifier
>
> what's the trick? I'm not savvy on java
>
You don't want the $ sign in the export command. You are exporting a
variable name, not its contents
Tony Schreiner