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

Pierre
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