If you recently made the upgrade to Leopard and you’re a frequent user of the OSX Terminal application, you may find that the environment paths that you had set up for the bash shell no longer work. Previously in Tiger, one can easily define those paths by creating a .bash_profile or .profile configuration file in the user directory, or editing the system-wide configuration file /etc/.profile directly if you have root access.

While I personally have never been able to make the configuration files work in the user directory, I’ve had success setting my environment paths in /etc/.profile. However, along with many other components that got shuffled around in the latest release of OSX, those profile settings are no longer found in the same locations. Oh why o why, Apple? (more…)