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Paul Cartwright writes:
On Saturday 23 October 2004 4:29 pm, Dom Incollingo wrote:
I often update the environmental variables (such as PATH, CLASSPATH, JAVA_HOME, TOMCAT_HOME, etc.) in my .profile when I install new software. =A0But in order for the new values to take effect, I log out of my x session (gnome in my case), and then log back in. =A0Is there any way for the new values of environmental variables to take effect without logging out and back in? =A0Thanks very much.
it used to be: prompt:> . .profile =20
as in dot space dot-profile
That works only for the shell that you have running in a terminal window (e.g., konsole), but kde startup script running "in the background" still has the old environment. Unfortunately, there is no way to refresh that without a re-login. -Ti -- Ti Kan http://www.amb.org/ti Vorsprung durch Technik