Hiya Nick...   
      
   -=> Accession wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
    Ac> On Wed Jan 25 2017 16:54:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to John Guillory:   
      
    BM>  -> SBBSCTRL=/home/pi/sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini   
      
    BM> This I orginally put in the script itself.  I have since removed the   
    BM> sbbs.ini and it's still doing the same thing.   
      
    Ac> And with or without sbbs.ini, the command is wrong without "export" at   
    Ac> the beginning, just like you seemed to have put into your /etc/profile   
    Ac> below..   
      
    BM>  -> export SBBSCTRL=/home/pi/sbbs/ctrl   
    BM>  -> export SBBSNODE=/home/pi/sbbs/node1   
      
    BM> As stated above, I made the change in the script.  I also rechecked   
    BM> the /etc/profile in root, the /home/pi/.profile and the   
    BM> /home/pi/.bash_profile and added the lines you stated... still getting   
    BM> SBBSCtrl enviorment variable not set. :(   
      
    Ac> Maybe not enough changes in your script?   
      
   The issue was with "sudo".... I removed it and poof!!   
      
    Ac> Adding it to .profile and .bash_profile is unnecessary. /etc/profile is   
    Ac> system-wide, and anything starting with a period in your home directory   
    Ac> is for that user only, and not system-wide.   
      
   Yes, it is added in the /etc/profile as you originally told me.  That's why I   
   was confused it wouldn't find it but as I said to echicken, removing sudo did   
   the trick!!   
      
   Thanks for all your help as usual!!   
      
      
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