Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2040 mails)

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Bornkessel wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 15:52:59 Dave Howorth wrote:
>> Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>>> * Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [06-04-07 06:46]:
>>>> I'm trying to run a Java program from a cron job and have discovered
>>>> that JAVA_HOME and friends aren't set. What's the best way to set them
>>>> for cron jobs?
>>>>
>>>> I'm presently on 9.3 but will be moving to 10.2 shortly.
>>> add:    JAVA_HOME=<location/you/desire>
>> Thanks. I was trying to avoid hardwiring and instead would like to make
>> use of the Suse-defined Java configuration mechanisms if I can.
>>
>> i.e. <location/you/desire> is not something I invent, it's something the
>> system invents, but it fails to let cron know.
>>
>> Cheers, Dave
> 
> Since we switched to jpackage-style packaging, the currently used JRE is 
> always located at:
> /usr/lib/jre   (/usr/lib64/jre on x86_64 and ppc64)
> and the JDK at:
> /usr/lib/jvm/java (/usr/lib64/jvm/java on x86_64 and ppc64)

Ahh, that's good to know :) I've got some 64-bit and some 32-bit boxes,
so it's also one more thing to have to remember :(

Thanks, Dave
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