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Place for setting environment variables for WebSphere JVM process

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http://serverfault.com – I have a websphere application which runs under the user wsadmin. The application invokes the SQL bulk loader client ./sqlldr The sqlldr needs some environment variables predefined in order to work such as ORACLE_BASE=/usr/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=/usr/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.1/client_64 ORACLE_SID=VDO1018 Can you tell me what is the best place to put these variables. I have few options: 1) /etc/profile or /etc/environment 2) .bash_profile of wsadmin user The reason I am asking this question is sqlldr is failing randomly for us and currently the variables are placed in .bash_profile. si (HowTos)

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