Hello,

I am trying to set an environmental variable. I have a number of these variables set to PATH in my .bash_profile folder and they work fine but I recently added a new one see below (problem path marked w/ **)and when I attempt to log-in my system freezes. I can remove this path and the system works fine. I can also boot to a shell with the path intact? Anybody got any ideas as to why this is hapening?

TIA,

Pedro

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/SUNWappserver/jdk/bin

export PATH

**PATH=$MFOLDDAT:/home/apps/share/mfold

export MFOLDDAT**

export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/bin/mysql-connector-java-3.1.12/mysql-connector-java.jar:

It appears that you want to set the environment variable MFOLDDAT to a value which is not the same thing as adding to your existing path variable.

MFOLDDAT=/home/apps/share/mfold
export MFOLDDAT

You can simplify things a little.
...
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin/SUNWappserver/jdk/bin
MFOLDDAT=/home/apps/share/mfold
export PATH MFOLDDAT
unset USERNAME
...