Bug 209997 – Java environment variables are only set on interactive shells

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcel Meckel 2008-02-13 13:29:30 UTC]

As pointed out in $summary Java env variables are only set in interactive shells.

This is especially problematic if you want to run java apps via ssh, e.g. restart a tomcat server via nagios event handler.

Example:


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user@local:~>ssh remote 'env | grep JAVA'
Password: 

user@local:~>ssh remote
Password: 
user@remote:~>env|grep JAVA
JAVA_HOME=/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm
JAVAC=/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac
user@remote:~>
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Java env variables are set in

  /etc/profile.d/java-config-2.sh

which is only sourced from /etc/profile but not /etc/bash/bashrc.

Maybe it's worth thinking about moving the code block


---snip---
for sh in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
        if [ -r "$sh" ] ; then
                . "$sh"
        fi
done
unset sh
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from /etc/profile to /etc/bash/bashrc.

[Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2009-03-06 06:28:48 UTC]

Nothing written by the team should rely on JAVA_HOME so if you you find something that does please open separate bugs for them.