topic PATH Setting issue in Windows Server 2003

PATH Setting issue

Prasad BS — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:48:54 GMT

There is issue in setting the PATH enviornment variable in Windows 2003 server.

Here are the details ,

In My Computer - > Properties - > Advanced ->Environment Variables - > System Variables

I have defined ,

J2SDK = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11

Then i login to command prompt - > issue the below command.

echo %J2SDK%
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11

echo %path%
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WIND
System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN

Then i will be executing a command file extension (.cmd ) in which there are few Project related enviornment variables which are setting correctly.
But the below command in the same cmd file to set the PATH.

set PATH=%PATH%;.;%J2SDK%\bin;%J2SDK%\jre\bin\client.

Is not setting the PATH corrrectly.

After this if issue

echo %path%
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\
System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN;.;C:\Program\b
in;C:\Program\jre\bin\client

You can see the J2SDK is not set correctly from above echo command.

It always says
"C:\Program\bin" - > instead of "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11" also ,

"C:\Program\jre\bin\client" - > instead of "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11\jre\bin\client"

Can anyone help on this.

Thanks
Prasad

Re: PATH Setting issue

Steven Clementi — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:59:28 GMT

You can try 2 things...

1. J2SDK = "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11"

or

2. J2SDK = C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_11

Steven

Re: PATH Setting issue

Prasad BS — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:20:04 GMT

I tried your suggestion but it didn't solve the problem.

But I noticed when I run the command file after ,

In My Computer - > Properties - > Advanced ->Environment Variables - > System Variables

The J2SDK will be set back to below one again.
J2SDK = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11

Any other suggestions.

Thanks
Prasad

Re: PATH Setting issue

Steven Clementi — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:21:28 GMT

It works just fine on my Vista Desktop.

Going to try on a 2003 machine in my lab.

It might be a 2003 issue. (2003 or older).

What service pack are you running? if any?

Steven

Re: PATH Setting issue

Prasad BS — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:06:37 GMT

The platform is windows 2003 Server SP2.

-Prasad

Re: PATH Setting issue

Prasad BS — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:07:40 GMT

Forgot to mention one more thing , it works correctly in Windows Xp also.

-Prasad