From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 24 12: 5:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1958C37BD65 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:05:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beesea@freewwweb.com) Received: from freewwweb.com (ppp-80.tnt-1.nyc.smartworld.net [64.38.8.80]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA83067 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 15:05:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392C2834.EB99F7BF@freewwweb.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:06:28 -0400 From: Brian Camba X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problem with startup files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org what's up everyone? i've just intalled freebsd, and i'm encountering a weird problem. my .profile and .shrc don't seem to be executed at startup. i can tell because when i use env at the prompt, some of the environment variables are different from what i set in my .profile (i.e. path), and some aren't even set at all. also, i've made sure that i exported all the variables because i originally thought that was the problem. does anyone know what is wrong? thanks, bc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message