Alan wrote: > I have had some trouble for a long time with exporting some > environmental variables from my .bash_profile or the .bashrc > > Even if I manually execute those files, the variables still are not > set. I have a echo 'path set' in files and I do see that when I do a: > > user@boxname:~$ ./.bashrc > path set > > > Only way I can get them to set is to put them into the default: > > /etc/profile.d > > What did I mess up way back when to prevent those files from working > properly? > > uname -a > Linux boxname 2.6.16.38LFS6.22 #6 Fri Mar 16 23:46:27 PDT 2012 i686 > pentium3 i386 GNU/Linux > > Thank you! > Alan > > > .bash_profile is ignored when bash is called sh. You may rename it .profile
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