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