Need some insight on environment variables/.profile

hello,
I'm a bit confused by how the various environment profiles are set in Terminal for Leopard. I am working with a developer who used his .profile to set a series of export commands and successfully set some path constants. But when I tried it on my very similarly configured system I can't seem to get anything in my .profile to run. I can run it explicitly by doing . ~/.profile .
I tried the obvious, restarted terminal, etc and no good. I can add things to .bash_profile and they seem to work. I'm just confused about why this would be different.
thanks!
J

jaeysin wrote:
I tried the obvious, restarted terminal, etc and no good. I can add things to .bash_profile and they seem to work. I'm just confused about why this would be different.
Just add a command to run .profile from your .bash_profile file
Something like:
if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
. ~/.profile
fi
Mihalis.
Message was edited by: Mihalis Tsoukalos

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