Autoexec and environment variable problem

[jefe9]

I have a problem with the environment variables being set in the autoexec.bat file.

I am running Win Me (a Win98 98 Clone by Microsoft)

I have all the environment variables set in AUTOEXEC.BAT, including the PATH ; but after many tests I am convinced that autoexec.bat is not being run at all;

This is what I have set in autoexec.bat

set PATH=C:\Java\j2sdk1.4.1_02\bin;C:\orawin95\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
SET JAVA_HOME="C:\Java"
SET CATALINA_HOME="C:\Tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24"

None of these are set after startup - specifically the path environment variable starts with C:\orawin95\bin which omits the new one I put in before (the Java path)
ALso JAVA_HOME is not set at all. SO I can only deduce that the autoexec is not being run at startup.

There is ONLY one autoexec on the system
Does anyone know why this is happening?

Any help/advice appreciated

TIA

Jefe

 

[comtec17]

Go to Start-->Run, and type in msconfig and go to Autoexec.bat. From here you can add your path.

If I am not mistaken, I dont think Windows ME uses the Autoexec.bat anymore. Not sure though.

You can also go do this from the command prompt.

 

[tsuji]

Hello jefe9,

ME still "process" the autoexec.bat but in its own way. It will ignore what it doesn't like. As to the environment variable, I think it still accepts the instructions. So, I am surprised by JAVA_HOME not being set as you said. Do you mean CATALINA_HOME has been successfully set???

ME takes the SET instructions and stores the values in the registry under:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Environment]

You could check it see if the settings are there, such as:

"JAVA_HOME"="C:\JAVA"
etc

As to the PATH, maybe, it is more complicated. The application-specific paths are stored under:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppPaths]

Look into it and try to mimic other application's default setting see if it solve the problem. But, I am not sure Apache & tomcat get their way like this.

regards - tsuji

 

[Marcs41]

Maybe if you post the full autoexec, there may be something in there that skips or ignore things.

Marc
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