LIBPATH disappears when spawning new process

[Kevin Scantlan]

We are on CL 5.8.5 and AIX 6.1  .  We have an issue that only appeared after we upgraded the OS to AIX 6.1  .  From a command line I can echo out $LIBPATH and have it show several libraries.  However, if I execute either xterm or aixterm, and echo $LIBPATH from the new session, it does not have a value.  But, if I execute hciaixterm, I retain the $LIBPATH value.  When looking at hciaixterm, you can see that LIBPATH is copied to another variable, then copied back once the new session is created.   How did whoever wrote hciaixterm know that they needed to do this?  

To confuse the matter, this is only happening in our main production server and not our test server nor our gateway (smaller production site) server.  This also happens when with the “at” and “fork” commands with their new sessions.

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