Setting Global Environment Variables in CentOS
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The easiest way to set an environment variable in CentOS is to use export as in $> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk.1.5.0_12 $> export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME However, variables set in such a manner are transient i.e. they will disappear the moment you exit the shell. Obviously this is not helpful when setting environment variables that need to ...