linux-question (once again)

[wu_trax]

ok, this is my problem:
im working on some web-shop with php/mysql. so far all works fine. now i want to generate dynamic pdf-files with some kind of data-sheets for each products. for that use use apache FOP. even that works fine. i've got the stylesheets and stuff. i use some pretty long exec-command to build it and it takes age because i need to write the xml-data to file on the file system first, but nm, it works, at least on the shell.
my only problem is that i somehow need to set $JAVA_HOME for the user www-data. how do i do that? i put
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/local/lib/jdk"
export JDK_HOME="${JAVA_HOME}"
export PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
in /etc/profile, but that does not seem to make any difference

[queball]

/etc/profile is run for users that log in. There's no way to control the environment of a user as such; use the apache configuration. How are you using FOP, more specifically?

[wu_trax]

the line is
'exec('/mnt/data/fop-0.20.5/fop.sh -q -xml ' . $path . $filename . '.xml -xsl ' . $stylesheetfile . ' -pdf ' . $path . $filename . '.pdf', $out);' in a php-file
print_r($out) told me that java_home isn't set

[pablissimo]

Can you not exec() the export lines as well?

[wu_trax]

apparently its a new eviroment every time you use exec. i tried but it doesnt seem to make any difference. i guess ill just ignore it while im at home. at work it works, because im not the guy who handles all that server stuff .
at least i somehow managed to get a mail-server running, so that i can do at least some testing of the stuff im doing here.

edit: found it now \o/. i set it in /etc/init.d/apache

[JetLinus]

Linux seems damn complicated :-/

[wu_trax]

Originally Posted by JetLinus

Linux seems damn complicated :-/

once you know things its probably really great, the only problem is i dont