One of the sites I'm trying to migrate to my server (all self-owned and managed sites, btw) uses the Bash builtin . (period) to read and execute fully-pathed files. However, the scripts using . to execute these pathed files doesn't read them and therefore the pages never succeed.

Is this read & execute builtin shut down on RHEL 5? Or is there an obscure permissions problem I haven't found?

Personally I haven't noticed any of my RHEL4 shell scripts failing on RHEL5. But, a good way to try and troubleshoot this is to run the script using "bash -x" it will spit out some debug info as it executes.

Thanks for the tip, James. We can use that for debugging for sure.

Turns out we had a syntax error in a source file that was being picked up. Bash builtins are workin' fine.