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How to change java version within a bash script?

I have one piece of a script that needs a different java version to the rest of the script, up till now I’ve always manually changed versions with sudo update-alternatives –config java and then just select the one I need. Is there a way to do that within a bash script? I’ve tried export JAVA…

Unable to get PATH to be set for all users

Trying to get OpenJDK 17 installed for Pufferpanel. User pi can do java -version fine however Pufferpanel gets bash: java: command not found My /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d/java.sh have these lines: In addition JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-17.0.1+12″ is set in /etc/environment Full permissions h…

ProcessHandle returns ambiguous results

I’ve two Java 11 methods that check whether a process for a given PID is running: When checking multiple PIDs on Linux clients, I’m getting sometimes different results for certain PIDs, where the first implementation always returns true and the second one always false. Checking some “false p…

Stop Java from killing Bash script that started it

I’ve spent the past couple days working on this, and at this point I am super stuck. I have a Java program that must be run not as a service. This program must also be capable of updating itself when a new file is given for updating. As a result, I have a script that is started with Linux that