My .bashrc file and bash_profile are: # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions declare -x "AMBERHOME=/home/mpiuser/amber8" declare -x "F90=/opt/intel_fc_80/bin/ifort" declare -x "F90INC=/opt/intel_fc_80/include" declare -x "F90LIBPATH=/opt/intel_fc_80/lib" declare -x "F90LINKER=/opt/intel_fc_80/bin/ifort" declare -x "RSHCOMMAND=/usr/bin/ssh" declare -x "DO_PARALLEL=mpirun -np 4" export AMBERHOME export F90 export F90INC export F90LIBPATH export F90LINKER export RSHCOMMAND # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi bash_profile: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/$HOME/mpich-1.2.6/bin:/opt/intel_fc_80/bin:/usr/local/bin:/$cwd AMBERHOME=/home/mpiuser/amber8 MPICH_HOME=/home/mpiuser/mpich-1.2.6 export PATH unset USERNAME export AMBERHOME export MPICH_HOME PATH=/opt/intel_fc_80/bin:$PATH:/home/mpiuser/amber8/exe: export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/intel_fc_80/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH MANPATH=/opt/intel_fc_80/man:$MANPATH export MANPATH INTEL_LICENSE_FILE=/opt/intel_fc_80/bin export INTEL_LICENSE_FILE