editing .profile

[PhatBarren]

Okay, i'm not crazy here... can you not edit your system variables by editing .profile??
i type $> pico .profile
and i get a new (empty) file to edit..... wtf???
i've done this before and it worked. I'm using Red Hat 7.1.

Thanks,

[Malakin]

If you want to change system wide environment variable use "/etc/profile"

If you want changes to only effect the one user then it's "$HOME/.bash_profile"