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Subject: Re: problem with startup files
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Brian Camba wrote:
> 
> 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?

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