On 19-Nov-99 John Horne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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).
>
> Any help appreciated. At present I have created a /etc/profile.d/ksh.sh to
> run my .kshrc file, but this is not ideal.
>
> John.
Are you in root or user mode ? If you are using Gnome and in user
mode change the shell and it should work.
If you are in root and using Gnome and do this it won't work.
Root is set to bash. You'll have to configure it to work.
Larry
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