JAVA_HOME not set properly

Question

iam trying to configure hadoop in cygwin. I have set JAVA_HOME as /cygdrive/c/work/java/jdk1.6.0_30 If I echo $JAVA_HOME , it dispalys correctly

But if I run the command bin/hadoop version It is giving error message as /bin/java :No such file or directory.

Please help

Answer 1

The error message has nothing to do with JAVA_HOME. You have to add the path where your java is to the PATH variable:

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/java
export $PATH