Do I need to remote after installation of s/w and set the env variable

[srangu]

Hi,
I have installed ODWEK software on AIX box and set the environment variables like: PATH,LIBPATH,LD_LIBRARY_PATH,CLASSPATH.
My question here is do I need to reboot the system to take these changes or is there anyother workaround. I heard that there is 'export'. But I don't know how far it works.
The reason why we don't want to reboot the box is because we have lot more applications running on that server and that is the production box.
Please help me out.
Thanks
Subha

 

[rzs0502]

You do not have to reboot.
If you are exporting the variables in ~/.profile or /etc/environment, then you just have to logoff and back in again - or just dot the file(s)
. /etc/profile
. ~/.profile


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