Environment variables are not set at login
Issue
- Non-root user has variables set in ~/.profile:
-sh-3.2$ cat .profile
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jive/java
-sh-3.2$
- However, the variable values are not being set at login:
-sh-3.2$ echo $JAVA_HOME
-sh-3.2$
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- bash (/bin/bash, /bin/sh)
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