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Message: [QUOTE="Martin Gregorie, post: 3017349"] Assuming that the bash structures in Ubuntu are the same as for Fedora, a better place to put Java-related stuff is in a "java.sh" file in /etc/profile.d - /etc/profile will automatically find and run it. Secondly, remember to make a copy of the file somewhere in a user directory - otherwise it will be nuked next time you do a clean install because that wipes and recreates the /etc filing structure. I do the following to make reinstalls more painless: - /home is a separate partition so it will survive a reinstall without damage. All other partitions can be reformatted without losing anything vital. - I moved the entire /usr/local hierarchy to /home/local and replaced /usr/local with a symlink to /home/local. This means I recover local stuff after a reinstall by removing the new local structure (which is empty) and recreating the symlink. - I've done the same with the Java installation (/usr/java is a symlink to /home/java. - all files I've manually changed in /etc and /var are copied to an equivalent structure in mt development user so they'll survive a reinstall. - the /etc and /var backups are under cvs version control for added safety. The CVS repository is in /home/cvs I do essentially the same, but I back up /home to a portable USB drive with rsync. This keeps a copy of my entire filing system in sync with the original. rsync is fast: doing same backup with tar to produce a compressed archive on a USB disk takes 50 mins. rsync does effectively the same job in under 15. [/QUOTE]

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