On 19-Nov-99 at 13:13:14 Allen Bolderoff wrote:
> did you try chsh?
> and telling the system you want to use pdksh?
>
Yup and yup. Still doesn't work.
John.
>>
>> I've just rebuilt my PC from RH5.2 to 6.1 - a 'custom' installation; no
>> problems. I installed the pdksh rpm since I prefer to use the Korn shell
>> (used it a lot on the Sun's, so I still use it under linux). However, the
>> .profile file in my home directory is not being seen/read. The shell,
>> /bin/ksh, is in the /etc/shells file. Anyone know what I am missing here?
>> As far as I knew all I had to do was create the .profile file, ensure
>> /etc/shells is okay and that's it. Under RH5.2 I don't remember having to
>> do anything different, and I have checked all the files I could think
>> of (I still have the old system on a seperate disk partition).
>>
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