well... your shell is probably ignoring .profile. I think the default shell under osx is now bash, so look for a file called .bashrc, and if it exists add the s

well... your shell is probably ignoring .profile. I think the default shell under osx is now bash, so look for a file called .bashrc, and if it exists add the settings from .profile in there (or you can just source .profile from your bashrc).