Re: bash profile not working

[Kent West]

John Taber wrote:
I want to set some environmental variables - I tried putting them in 
bash_profile (which works in RH) but it doesn't seem to work although when I 
manually type in the same lines at the command prompt it works (using Knoppix 
on HD).  Any suggestions? thks
John
 

If you're setting these in an Xterm (or equivalent), they will only 
affect that shell, not other shells/applications not started from that 
shell.

Also, are you just setting them, or are you exporting them also (which 
is necessary)?

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Kent
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